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The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order In Post-conflict States
by Naazneen H. Barma /
2016 / English / PDF
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Transformative peace operations fall short of achieving the modern
political order sought in post-conflict countries because the
interventions themselves empower post-conflict elites intent on
forging a neopatrimonial political order. The Peacebuilding Puzzle
explains the disconnect between the formal institutional
engineering undertaken by international interventions, and the
governance outcomes that emerge in their aftermath. Barma's
comparative analysis of interventions in Cambodia, East Timor, and
Afghanistan focuses on the incentives motivating domestic elites
over a sequence of three peacebuilding phases: the elite peace
settlement, the transitional governance period, and the aftermath
of intervention. The international community advances certain forms
of institutional design at each phase in the pursuit of effective
and legitimate governance. Yet, over the course of the
peacebuilding pathway, powerful post-conflict elites co-opt the
very processes and institutions intended to guarantee modern
political order and dominate the practice of governance within
those institutions to their own ends. This title is also available
as Open Access.
Transformative peace operations fall short of achieving the modern
political order sought in post-conflict countries because the
interventions themselves empower post-conflict elites intent on
forging a neopatrimonial political order. The Peacebuilding Puzzle
explains the disconnect between the formal institutional
engineering undertaken by international interventions, and the
governance outcomes that emerge in their aftermath. Barma's
comparative analysis of interventions in Cambodia, East Timor, and
Afghanistan focuses on the incentives motivating domestic elites
over a sequence of three peacebuilding phases: the elite peace
settlement, the transitional governance period, and the aftermath
of intervention. The international community advances certain forms
of institutional design at each phase in the pursuit of effective
and legitimate governance. Yet, over the course of the
peacebuilding pathway, powerful post-conflict elites co-opt the
very processes and institutions intended to guarantee modern
political order and dominate the practice of governance within
those institutions to their own ends. This title is also available
as Open Access.