Cambridge University Press Peacebuilding Paradigms: The Impact of Theoretical Diversity on Implementing Sustainable Peace

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. Book Description Peacebuilding is explained by combining interpretive frameworks (paradigms) that have evolved from the subfields of international relations and comparative politics. About the Author Henry F. Carey is Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. He has published many books and articles on international law, human rights and comparative democratization. Some of his most recent books include Understanding International Law Through Moot Courts and European Institutions (2017); The Challenges of European Governance in the Age of Economic Stagnation, Immigration, and Refugees (2017); and Democratization, and Human Rights Protection in the European Periphery (2014). He received the first Faculty Diversity Award at Georgia State University.