Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (New Security Challenges) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230285619 ISBN 13: 9780230285613

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

International intervention in post-conflict economies can exacerbate the challenges of transformation. The contributors to Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding are experts on key issues that tend to be neglected in the approaches to peacebuilding. This collection reaches beyond the technical approaches of international financial institutions and agencies of the liberal peace. It examines peace end-games, gender, trade, diasporas, borderlands, employment and global governance. Each issue is addressed at three levels: (1) a global analysis; (2) a generic theme; (3) a case study showing how specific factors influence local political economies. The authors ask whether a political economy of peace is being promoted by current approaches to peacebuilding and consider the specific policy changes or shifts in the architecture of global governance that are necessary to foster inclusive political economies based on local needs.

About this title

Book Description:

Examines the much-neglected question of what constitutes a political economy of peace after civil conflicts and who controls it

About the Author:

MICHAEL PUGH Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Bradford, UK, editor of the journal International Peacekeeping and the Cass Peacekeeping book series. He was a member of the ESRC-funded Transformation of War Economies team, edited Regeneration of War-torn Societies (2000), and co-authored War Economies in a Regional Context (2004).

NEIL COOPER Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Security in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK. His research interests include the arms trade, arms control and the political economy of civil conflicts. His recent publications include an edited special issue on war economies of Conflict, Security and Development, co-authorship of War Economies in a Regional Context: The Challenges of Transformation (2004) and articles in Security Dialogue; Contemporary Security Policy; Review of International Studies and Development and Change.

MANDY TURNER Lecturer in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK. She is assistant editor of International Peacekeeping and has published articles on peacebuilding, regulating the trade in conflict goods, diasporas and peacebuilding, and statebuilding in Palestine in Conflict, Security and Development, Democratization, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, The World Today and The Guardian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0230285619
• ISBN 13: 9780230285613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 433
• Editor: Pugh M., Cooper N., Turner M.