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Failed statebuilding : intervention and the dynamics of peace formation

By Richmond , Oliver P

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0300175310, 978-0-300-17531-8
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1090653 bytes)
Pages
275\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Developing countries -- Foreign relations -- Weste

Description

Western struggles—and failures—to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse. In this groundbreaking book, Oliver Richmond asks why statebuilding has been so hard to achieve, and argues that a large part of the problem has been Westerners’ failure to understand or engage with what local peoples actually want and need. He interrogates the liberal peacebuilding industry, asking what it assumes, what it is getting wrong, and how it could be more effective.

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