Liberal Peace Transitions

Oliver P. Richmond is Research Professor of IR, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute & Department of Politics, University of Manchester. His recent publications include Peace in IR (Routledge, 2008), Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers During Conflict Resolution (co-edited with Edward Newman) (UNU Press, 2006), and The Transformation of Peace (Palgrave, 2005). Jason Franks has been a Research Fellow in the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is author of Rethinking the Roots of Terrorism (Palgrave, 2006).s

• Introduction: A Framework to Assess Liberal Peace Transitions; 1. Cambodia: Liberal Hubris and Virtual Peace; 2. Bosnia: Between Partition and Pluralism; 3. Liberal Peace in East Timor: The Emperors' New Clothes?; 4. Co-opting the Liberal Peace: Untying the Gordian Knot in Kosovo; 5. Building/ Rejecting the Liberal Peace: State Consolidation and Liberal Failure in the Middle East; Conclusion: Evaluating the Achievements of the Liberal Peace and Revitalising a Virtual Peace; Bibliography.

This book provides a set of illuminating insights (both empirical and theoretical) from the study of a series of post-Cold War 'liberal peace' interventions.