Peacebuilding Paradigms

The Impact of Theoretical Diversity on Implementing Sustainable Peace

Henry F. Carey

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781108483728
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108750639
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Peacebuilding Paradigms focuses on how seven paradigms from the Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Policy Analysis subfields - Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism, Cosmopolitanism, Critical Theories, Locality, and Policy - analyze peacebuilding. The contributors explore the arguments of each paradigm, and then compare and contrast them. This book suggests that a hybrid approach that incorporates useful insights from each of these paradigms best explains how and why peacebuilding projects and policies succeed in some cases, fail in others, and provide lessons learned. Rather than merely using a theoretical approach, the authors use case studies to demonstrate why a focus on just one paradigm alone as an explanatory model is insufficient. This collection directly at how peacebuilding theory affects peacebuilding policies, and provides recommendations for best practices for future peacebuilding missions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Foreword: From Paradigm Dominance to Paradigm Hybridity: Scholarship’s Relevance to Peacebuilding
• Introduction: Bridging the Conceptual and Theoretical Divides on Peace and Peacebuilding
• Part I The Realist Paradigm
• Part II The Liberal Paradigm
• Part III The Constructivist Paradigm
• Part IV The Cosmopolitan Paradigm
• Part V The Critical Theory Paradigm
• Part VI The Locality Paradigm
• Part VII The Policy Paradigm
• Conclusion A Hybrid Approach to Understanding Peacebuilding
• Bibliography
• Index