Costly Democracy: Peacebuilding and Democratization After War 1st Edition by Christoph Zürcher (PDF)

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Peacebuilding is an interactive process that involves collaboration between peacebuilders and the victorious elites of a postwar society. While one of the most prominent assumptions of the peacebuilding literature asserts that the interests of domestic elites and peacebuilders coincide, Costly Democracy contends that they rarely align. It reveals that, while domestic elites in postwar societies may desire the resources that peacebuilders can bring, they are often less eager to adopt democracy, believing that democratic reforms may endanger their substantive interests. The book offers comparative analyses of recent cases of peacebuilding to deepen understanding of postwar democratization and better explain why peacebuilding missions often bring peace―but seldom democracy―to war-torn countries.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “Costly democracy advances a new and important theory and develops a framework of analysis for understanding the peace-building process that has significant implications for both scholarship and public policy. It is methodologically rigorous–a model of structured comparative case study analysis–and is written with admirable clarity. It is an outstanding book that deserves to be read widely”. (Richard Caplan, University of Oxford, in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 26:4, 690-691)”The important and novel contribution of this book, unlike most previous research in this field, is its focus on the domestic political elite and its incentives for democ- ratization in a postwar context” “…constitutes an important contribution to both the ongoing scholarly debate on these issues and the policy and practice of postwar democratization” -Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs, Uppsala University, in Perspectives on Politics, March 2014, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 300-301)”All in all, this is a must read for anyone interested in peacebuilding and post-war democratization.” /Anna K. Jarstad, Uppsala University, in “Democratization”, September 2014) About the Author Christoph Zürcher is Professor of Political Science the University of Ottawa. Carrie Manning is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Georgia State University. Kristie D. Evenson is an independent researcher. Rachel Hayman is Head of Research at the International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC). Sarah Riese is a PhD candidate at Free University Berlin. Nora Roehner is an advisor for the government of Afghanistan in Kabul.

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