Peacebuilding; Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I Introduction; 1 The Twenty Years' Crisis; Introduction; The End of Peacebuilding; The 'Hubris' of Liberal Peacebuilding; The Pragmatic Apologia; The Return of Realism; The Contents of the Book; 2 The Pragmatic Critique; Introduction; The 'Political' Critique; The Emergence of 'Pragmatist' Critique; A 'Critical' Consensus?; International Peacebuilding and the Critique of Liberalism; Too Liberal?; Beyond the Critique of the Liberal Peacebuilding?; Conclusion; Part II The Rise of Peacebuilding; 3 The Birth of a Mission; Introduction.

The Critique of the Realist ParadigmThe Implications for Sovereignty and Intervention; The Reform of Peace Operations; Peace Negotiations; Peacekeeping; Peacebuilding; The Case of Bosnia; Conclusion; 4 Peacebuilding as Statebuilding; Introduction; From Peacebuilding Protectorates to Statebuilding; States Without Sovereignty; Sovereignty as Capacity?; Sovereignty as Responsibility?; International Legal Sovereignty?; Phantom States and Fragile Empires; Conclusion; Part III The Peacebuilding Impasse; 5 Civil Society Building; Introduction; Building Civil Society; Targeting.

Developing a Peacebuilding AgendaThe Voice of Civil Society; The Limits of Civil Society Development; International Regulation and Civil Society Development; Civil Society and Democracy; Conclusions; 6 The Institutionalist Approach; Introduction; The Lessons of Bosnia and Herzegovina; 'The Rule of Law' and Political Representation; The Law on Property Return; Law on Employment in Public Institutions; The 'Rule of Law'?; Conclusion; Part IV Beyond Peacebuilding; 7 The Turn to the Local; Introduction; The Barriers of Non-Linearity and Hybridity; The Discovery of the 'Local'

The 'Hidden' Politics of ResistanceThe Reification of 'Resistance'; Conclusion; 8 The Rise of Resilience; Introduction; The Limits of Culture; The Rise of Resilience; The Drug Problem in the Americas; Conclusion; Part V Conclusion; 9 The End of the Liberal Episteme; Introduction; The Conceptualization of Peacebuilding as Politics; Solutionism: The Roots of the Crisis of Peacebuilding; Endogenous Causality: Prolonging the Impasse of Peacebuilding; Governing Effects: Beyond the Impasse; 'Organic' Versus 'Political' Understandings of Peacebuilding; Conclusion; References; Index.