At War’s End
Building Peace After Civil Conflict
by Roland Paris
Cambridge
University
Exploring the challenge of rehabilitating countries after
civil wars, this study finds that attempting to transform war-shattered states
into liberal democracies with market economies can backfire badly. Roland Paris examines the assumptions and
outcomes of fourteen missions launched in the 1990s, from Namibia to East
Timor, and finds that the rapid introduction of democracy and capitalism in the
absence of effective institutions can increase rather than decrease the danger
of renewed fighting. He sets out an
alternative strategy for post-conflict peacebuilding,
one that emphasizes the reconstruction of effective security, police and
judicial institutions as the essential first step in the gradual transformation
of war-torn states into stable market democracies. This volume speaks simultaneously to
policymakers and scholars who are interested in the challenges of post-conflict
rehabilitation and in the relationship between liberal democracy,
market-oriented economics, and peace.
**Winner
of the Chadwick F. Alger Award for best book on international organization.**
**Winner
of the Eugene M. Kayden Award for best book
manuscript by a faculty member at the
“At
War's End is the state of the art treatment of the dilemmas of
reconstruction and peacebuilding after war,
intervention and civil conflict.”
–Michael Ignatieff, Director,
“At
a moment when politicians and pundits are debating the wisdom of
nation-building, Roland Paris brings us an important and groundbreaking
book. Theoretically rich, historically
informed, and analytically innovative, this authoritative volume will be
invaluable to scholars and practitioners alike who are interested in
understanding what it takes to build peace after civil wars.”
–Thomas G. Weiss,
Presidential Professor and Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International
Studies,
“This
is the best book yet written on peacebuilding
operations, a must for both academics and practitioners.”
–Peter Viggo Jakobsen, Associate
Professor in International Relations, University of
“It is hard to
imagine a more timely study than Roland Paris’s superb analysis of the peacebuilding experience of the last decade. As the
–Robert A. Pastor,
Vice President of International Affairs,
“This book will
surely stand as the definitive treatment of the intellectual and ideological
origins of international peacekeeping and peacebuilding
in the post-Cold War era. The breadth of
cases, the rigorous assessment of outcomes, and depth of policy insight are
most impressive.”
–Fen Osler Hampson, Professor of International Affairs and Director,
“Few
studies of peacekeeping and peacebuilding merit the
description ‘breakthrough.’ This is one
of them.”
–Michael Pugh,
Director, University of
“At
War’s End is a major contribution to an understanding of the theory,
practice, and consequences of peacekeeping that should be read by scholars and
practitioners alike. Roland Paris
expertly demonstrates how peacekeeping has evolved from the modest attempt to
keep the peace into the much more ambitious agenda of engineering the
socio-political conditions for a stable peace.
But, as
–Michael Barnett,
Professor of Political Science and Director, International Relations Program,
“Roland
Paris’s important new book… deserves to become the essential text on peacebuilding operations for practitioners and analysts
alike.”
–Paul Williams,
Lecturer in Security Studies, University of
Click to read the full review in International Affairs
“In his methodical and detailed presentation of
the role that elections have played in 14 transitions from conflict to peace in
the 1990s,
–Salman
Ahmed, Senior Political Advisor, United Nations
Click to read the full review
in Foreign Affairs
“
–Roberto Belloni,
Lecturer in International Politics, Queen’s University,
Review in Political
Science Quarterly
“…an
excellent reference source for scholars of conflict studies as well as a
repository of knowledge for anyone interested in the process and the context of
civil wars.”
–Emilian Kavalski,
Review in African
Studies Quarterly
“…an
excellent book, which is very well written.”
–
Review in Peace
and Change
Introduction (also available in Spanish)
PART I
FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 1 The Origins of Peacebuilding
Chapter 2 The Liberal Peace Thesis
PART II THE PEACEBUILDING RECORD
Chapter 3 Introduction to the Case Studies
Chapter
4 Angola
and Rwanda
Chapter
5 Cambodia
and Liberia
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
PART III PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
Chapter 9 The Limits of Wilsonianism:
Understanding the Dangers
Chapter 10 Towards More Effective Peacebuilding:
Institutionalization Before Liberalization
Chapter 11 Lessons Learned and Not Learned: Kosovo, East
Conclusion
Educated
at the
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Roland Paris in Development in Practice: click here.
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information on ordering the book, click here.