Susanna Campbell is a Research Fellow at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. She has fourteen years of experience researching peacebuilding interventions, and has written numerous publications on the subject, including those published by the Council on Foreign Relations, International Alert, International Crisis Group, International Peacekeeping, and the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and has contributed to several United Nations publications.David Chandler is Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster, London, UK. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. His recent books include International Statebuilding: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance (Routledge, 2010) and Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance (Pluto, 2009).Meera Sabaratnam is a PhD candidate in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics, with previous degrees from Balliol College, Oxford and the LSE. Her current research applies postcolonial theoretical approaches to a critical appraisal of the liberal peace in Mozambique. She has formerly edited Millennium: Journal of International Studies and currently teaches a Masters' course on Conflict and Peace Studies. She is co-editor of the collection Interrogating Democracy in World Politics (Routledge, 2011).

• TablesAbout the AuthorsAcronymsIntroduction: The Politics of Liberal Peace, Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera SabaratnamPart I: Introducing the Debate1.A Brief Intellectual History of International Conflict Management, 1990-2010, Meera Sabaratnam2.Critiques of Liberal Peace, Roland ParisPart II: Not Such a 'Liberal' Peace? Rethinking Intervention3.Why Peacebuilding is Toothless: Sovereignty, Patrimonialism and Power, Ole Jacob Sending4.The Liberal Peace - A Tough Sell?, Christoph Zuercher5.Routine Learning? How Peacebuilding Organizations Prevent Liberal Peace, Susanna Campbell6.Promoting Women's Rights in Afghanistan: The Ambiguous Footprint of the West, Torunn Wimpelmann Chaudhary, Orzala Ashraf and Astri Suhrke7.Neither Liberal nor Peaceful? Practices of 'Global Justice' by the ICC, Adam Branch8.Civil Society Beyond the Liberal Peace and its Critique, Thania PaffenholzPart III: Rethinking the Critique: What Next?9.Alternatives to Liberal Peace?, Roland Paris10.The Uncritical Critique of Liberal Peace, David Chandler11.Reality Check: The Critique of the Liberal Peace Meets the Politics of State-Building, Shahar Hameiri12.Hybrid Peace: How does hybrid peace come about?, Roger Mac Ginty13.Resistance and the Post-Liberal Peace, Oliver P. Richmond14.Situated Critiques of Intervention: the Diverse Politics of Response, Meera Sabaratnam

This excellent collection makes an important contribution to debates about international peacebuilding, and in particular the role of liberal democracy, free market economics, and externally-driven models of the state and society. It reflects the latest 'critical' perspectives, and yet it is constructive and balanced. It also goes beyond the standard 'liberal peacebuilding' debates in order to provide genuinely new thinking. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in these topics.