Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Statebuilding and Peacebuilding

Oliver Richmond and Jason Franks

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April, 2011
Paper, 240 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4297-7
Edinburgh University Press
$32.00

This book examines the nature of "liberal peace," the international community's approach to post-conflict statebuilding. Critiquing this one-size-fits-all paradigm, the authors break down liberal peace theory into its constituent parts: democratization, free market reform and development, human rights, civil society, and the rule of law. Readers are provided with critically and theoretically informed empirical access to the "technology" of the liberal peacebuilding process, particularly with regard to Cambodia, Kosovo, East Timor, Bosnia, and the Middle East.

Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Politics and Political Theory

About the Author

Oliver P. Richmond is professor of international relations at the University of St. Andrews and director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. His recent publications include Peace in IR; Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers During Conflict Resolution (coedited with Edward Newman); and The Transformation of Peace. Jason Franks is a research fellow in the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of St. Andrews. He is author of Rethinking the Roots of Terrorism.

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