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The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States

The Politics of Peacebuilding The Argument and its Significance Structure of the Book Rethinking the Peacebuilding Puzzle What is Peacebuilding?The Transitional Governance Approach to Transformative Peacebuilding What Do We Know About Peacebuilding?Rethinking the Peacebuilding Puzzle A Unique Approach to Understanding Peacebuilding Viewing Peacebuilding in Time Peacebuilding Outcomes: Institutions and Governance Formal Institutional Choices Post-Intervention Governance Outcomes Case Selection Research Design Political Order in Post-Conflict States A Theoretical Framework The Pursuit of Political Order The Neopatrimonial Equilibrium Elites and Transformative Events Elite Settlements: The Continuation of War by Other Means Transitional Governance: A Process of Inherent Contradictions Neopatrimonial Political Order: A Hybrid Form of Governance The Peacebuilding Pathway From Violent Conflict to Elite Settlement The Cambodian Civil War The Paris Peace Agreement on Cambodia The East Timorese Resistance to Occupation The East Timor Independence Referendum The Afghan Civil War The Afghanistan Bonn Agreement Elite Settlements in Comparative Perspective International Intervention and Elite Incentives Transitional Governance in Cambodia The Cambodian Elections of 1993 Transitional Governance in East Timor The East Timorese Elections of 2001 Transitional Governance in Afghanistan The Afghan Elections of 2004 and 2005 Transitional Governance in Comparative Perspective Neopatrimonial Post-Conflict Political Order Post-Intervention Cambodia: Exclusionary Neopatrimonialism and the Threat of Violence Post-Intervention East Timor: Inclusionary Neopatrimonialism and Latent Conflict Post-Intervention Afghanistan: Competitive Neopatrimonialism and Persistent Insecurity Neopatrimonial Political Order in Comparative Perspective The Mirage of Modern Political Order in Post-Conflict States Transformative Peacebuilding Elsewhere Whither Peacebuilding?Sequencing the Pursuit of Effective and Legitimate Governance Focusing on the Leviathan Letting Democracy Make the State?Six Principles and a Caveat for Modifying Peacebuilding Practice Keep the Power Balance Fluid Focus on the Non-Electoral Ingredients of Democratization Political Parties are the Key to Programmatic Policy Expand and Extend International Post-Conflict Engagement View the State-Society Compact as Multidimensional Focus on Institutional Function, Not Form The Caveat: A Neopatrimonial Peace?Future Research and Theoretical Implications Indigenous Statebuilding and Peacebuilding Peacebuilding, Historical Institutionalism, and Political Science Conclusion Bibliography

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Political Order in Post-Conflict States
A Theoretical Framework Peacebuilding interventions typically fall short of achieving their aspirations because of a mismatch between the objectives of the international community and those of post-conflict elites. The United Nations is intent on building the basis for effective and legitimate...
(The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States)
The Mirage of Modern Political Order in Post-Conflict States
Transformative peacebuilding attempts fall short of achieving their core objective of effective and legitimate governance in post-conflict countries because the interventions themselves enable, and are coopted by, post-conflict elites intent on forging a neopatrimonial political order. This book has...
(The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States)
Neopatrimonial Post-Conflict Political Order
Patrimonialism has been the prevailing form of political order that must be overcome in constructing rule-bound, effective, and legitimate government. Post-conflict countries are no exception to this pattern. In Cambodia, East Timor, and Afghanistan, international interventions that sought to establish...
(The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States)
Why Institutions Matter in Post-Conflict States
The central theoretical assumption in this book is that institutions matter and are crucial to shaping the behaviour of actors – they constrain or enable certain actions, shape actors' identities and thus their interests. In this sense, the issue of ethnic accommodation of political elites is seen...
(After Ethnic Conflict : Policy-making in Post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia)
The origins of political order
For Fukuyama, to begin with, the European path to modernization was not a spasmodic burst of change across all dimensions of development but rather a series of piecemeal shifts over a period of almost 1,500 years. In this peculiar sequence, individualism on a social level could precede capitalism, the...
(Integral polity, integrating nature, СЃulture, society and economy)
THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER
... man springs from nature, creates a society adequate to his immediate needs out of his reason and will, and then engages in fatal combat with his own creation, to provide the drama of historical change. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1) THE NECESSITY OF...
(Integral polity, integrating nature, СЃulture, society and economy)
A META-PARADIGM FOR POLITICS: A MORE BALANCED STATE OF EXISTENCE
This is where, for Herman, the larger evolutionary perspective of big history offers a breakthrough in understanding both revolutions and the unique political possibilities for our moment. When we look at what the great revolutionary paradigm builders of Western civilization actually did, as opposed...
(Integral polity, integrating nature, СЃulture, society and economy)
Rethinking the Peacebuilding Puzzle
State formation and democratization have proven to be inherently organic, long-term, and complex processes that are extremely difficult to impose from the outside. Post-conflict countries are the least favorable environments in which strong and effective governance can take root and democracy can flourish....
(The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States)
Rethinking the Peacebuilding Puzzle
What explains the relative disappointment in the pursuit of effective and legitimate governance through peacebuilding interventions despite the tremendous financial, human, and intellectual resources devoted to this endeavor? The answer presented here rests upon two theoretical innovations that help...
(The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States)
The Pursuit of Political Order
How different societies construct political order is one of the single most important questions in the study of politics and perhaps the most elemental. Margaret Levi, in her address as President of the American Political ScienceAssociation, noted that political science is “driven by a common desire...
(The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States)