This book critically explores the practices of peacebuilding, and the politics of the communities experiencing intervention. The contributions to this volume ha

This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic

The book provides critical perspectives that reach beyond the technical approaches of international financial institutions and proponents of the liberal peace f

This book offers the first book-length explanation of the UN’s politics of selective humanitarian intervention. Over the past 20 years the United Nations has

Examines multilateral interventions in civil conflicts and the evolution of the role of such interventions in world politics. It focuses primarily on the Cold W