This book examines the nature of 'liberal peace': the common aim of the international community's approach to post-conflict statebuilding. Adopting a particular

This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set a

Why is it that states emerging from intervention, peacebuilding and statebuilding over the last 25 years appear to be 'failed by design'? This study explores th

Why is it that states emerging from intervention, peacebuilding and statebuilding over the last 25 years appear to be 'failed by design'? This study explores th

Despite the growing focus on issues of socio-economic transformation in contemporary transitional justice, the path dependencies imposed by the political econom