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This book interrogates the common perception that liberal peace is in crisis and explores the question: can the local turn save liberal peacebuilding? Presenting a case for a liberal renaissance in peacebuilding, the work interrogates the assumptions behind the popular perception that liberal peace is in crisis. It re-examines three of the cases that ignited the debate - Cambodia, Kosovo, and Timor-Leste - and evaluates how these transitional administrations implemented their liberal mandates and how local involvement affected the conduct of their activities. In so doing, it reveals that these cases were neither liberal nor peacebuilding. It also demonstrates that while local involvement is imperative to peacebuilding, illiberal local involvement may prelude a return to an elite-centred status quo and reinforces or creates new forms of conflict and violence. Using both liberal and critical lenses, the author ultimately argues that the conceptual and operational departure from the holistic and comprehensive origins of liberal peacebuilding in fact paved the way for the crisis itself. Drawing on analysis from in-depth field research and interviews, this book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, peacekeeping, statebuilding, security studies and International Relations in general.

Peace-building. --- Liberalism. --- Maintien de la paix --- Libéralisme.

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This book is the sequel to a well-received book titled ‘Integrated Approaches to Peace and Sustainability’ that aims to further advance the understanding of the dynamic interactions between various components of peace and sustainability. How are peace and sustainability linked to each other, and what are the key parameters that define the nexus between them? This book addresses those questions through a combination of theoretical studies and empirical research that contextualize peace and sustainability issues amid global transformations. The conceptual and empirical linkages between peace and sustainability are widely recognized in academic and policy circles. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development confirms this recognition. However, many of the initiatives on peace and sustainability operate in silos, undermining the positive and mutually reinforcing relationship between them. Enhanced integration of peace and sustainability components is imperative for addressing complex challenges that come with global transformations that are manifested environmentally, socially, politically, and economically across levels. It is, therefore, crucial to identify the pathways that enhance the peace-promoting potential of sustainability and the sustainability-promoting potential of peace. The contributions in this edited book elaborate on such pathways by offering insights related to different social, economic, and environmental aspects of the peace-sustainability nexus. Given its inter- and trans-disciplinary focus, the book is of interest to policymakers and researchers working in different areas of peace and sustainability. It contributes to ongoing academic and policy discussions surrounding the outcomes of and challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 16 on peace, justice and strong institutions. .

Sustainability. --- Political planning. --- Peace. --- Political science. --- Environmental sciences --- Public Policy. --- Peace and Conflict Studies. --- Governance and Government. --- Environmental Social Sciences. --- Politics and International Studies. --- Social aspects. --- Human ecology. --- Peace-building.

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Politics --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Polemology --- Public administration --- General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- overheid --- politiek --- vrede --- milieutechnologie

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Human Rights at Risk brings together social scientists, legal scholars, and humanities scholars to analyze the policy challenges of human rights protection in the twenty-first century. The volume is organized based on three overarching themes that highlight the challenges and risks in international human rights: international institutions and global governance of human rights; thematic blind spots in human rights protection; and the human rights challenges of the United States as a global and domestic actor amidst the contemporary global shifts to authoritarianism and illiberal populism. One of the very few books that offer new perspectives that envision the future of transnational human rights norms and human dignity from a multidisciplinary perspective, Human Rights at Risk comprehensively examines the causes and consequences of the challenges faced by international human rights. Scholars, students, and policy practitioners who are interested in the challenges and reform prospects of the international human rights regime, United States foreign policy, and international institutions will find this multidisciplinary volume an invaluable guide to the state of global politics in the twenty-first century.

International relations. --- Humanitarian intervention. --- Human rights. --- social science, legal scholar, policy challenges, human rights, human rights violations, human rights abuses, human rights protection, international human rights, international institutions, global governance, authoritarianism, illiberal populism, transnational human rights, human dignity, multidisciplinary, foreign policy, global politics, UN Universal Periodic Review, Obama, The African Group, UN Human Rights Council, ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, wartime, global peace, victims of crimes, cultural heritage, Crimes Against Cultural Heritage, Genocide, War on Drugs, Philippines, the Era of Trump, Trump era, American Decline, Exceptionalism, Universal Human Rights, Natural Law, Emancipatory Rights, Emancipation, human rights watch, liberty, freedom, torture, discrimination, inalienable, fundamental rights, justice, OHCHR, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UNICEF, community engagement, democracy, martyrs.