The Peacebuilding Puzzle Political Order in Post-Conflict States [Paperback]

Demonstrates how post-conflict elites interact with international peacebuilding interventions to construct hybrid political orders over time. This title is also available as Open Access.In this book, Naazneen H. Barma offers a new analysis of peacebuilding and post-conflict order. Through a comparative analysis of interventions in Cambodia, East Timor, and Afghanistan, she focuses on the incentives motivating domestic elites that prevent the establishment of modern political order. The book will be of interest to scholars and policymakers analyzing the effectiveness of international intervention. This title is also available as Open Access.In this book, Naazneen H. Barma offers a new analysis of peacebuilding and post-conflict order. Through a comparative analysis of interventions in Cambodia, East Timor, and Afghanistan, she focuses on the incentives motivating domestic elites that prevent the establishment of modern political order. The book will be of interest to scholars and policymakers analyzing the effectiveness of international intervention. This title is also available as Open Access.Transformative peace operations fall short of achieving the modern political order sought in post-conflict countries because the interventions themselves empower post-conflict elites intent on forging a neopatrimonial political order. The Peacebuilding Puzzle explains the disconnect between the formal institutional engineering undertaken by international interventions, and the governance outcomes that emerge in their aftermath. Barma's comparative analysis of interventions in Cambodia, East Timor, and Afghanistan focuses on the incentives motivating domestic elites over a sequence of three peacebuilding phases: the elite peace settlement, the transitional governance period, and the aftermath of intervention. The international community advances certain forms of institutional design at each phase in the pursuit of effective and legitimate governance. Yet, over the course of the l3´