Counter-peace tactical blockages to peace and strategic risks for the international system Oliver P. Richmond, Sandra Pogodda, Gëzim Visoka

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richmond, Oliver P., author.

Pogodda, Sandra, author.

Visoka, Gëzim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Peace.

Peace-building.

War--Causes.

War.

international relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford Oxford University Press [2026]

Summary:

During the 21st century, peace processes have been stagnating, collapsing, or reversed across diverse contexts. At the heart of this unravelling lies a complex and hitherto overlooked phenomenon: the systematic obstruction of peace itself. This text introduces the concept of counter-peace: a set of interconnected, multi-scalar processes that undermine, distort, or reverse peace processes without necessarily reverting to open warfare. Drawing on detailed case studies, this book reveals how counter-peace dynamics have become embedded in peace processes and why the resulting conflict escalation is a symptom of a changing international order. It interrogates the international peace architecture and argues that its failure to adapt to critical insights on justice, legitimacy, and emancipation has rendered it increasingly ineffective

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Tables and Charts

Acknowledgements

Introduction: International peace architecture, tactical blockages, and counter-peace strategies and systems

1 A theoretical framework to conceptualise counter-peace

2 From tactics to strategy: The stalemate pattern

3 Strategy and its limits: The limited counter-peace pattern

4 Entanglement, new repertoires, and conflict expansion: The unmitigated counter-peace pattern

5 The return of ideological contestation: The international implications of counter-peace

Conclusion: Responding to the emerging counter-peace architecture

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780197550335

0197550339

OCLC:

1581828035

Publisher Number:

CIPO000370870

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license