From war to democracy: dilemmas of peacebuilding
Attempts to introduce democracy in the wake of civil war face a critical problem: how can war-torn societies move towards peace and democracy when competitive politics and hard-fought elections exacerbate social and political conflict? Through a study of six themes (peacekeeping…
From war to democracy: dilemmas of peacebuilding
From war to democracy: dilemmas of peacebuilding
From war to democracy: dilemmas of peacebuilding
Attempts to introduce democracy in the wake of civil war face a critical problem: how can war-torn societies move towards peace and democracy when competitive politics and hard-fought elections exacerbate social and political conflict? Through a study of six themes (peacekeeping…
From war to democracy: dilemmas of peacebuilding
This text considers the dilemmas that arise in bringing peace and democracy to countries divided by civil war.
Considers the dilemmas that arise in bringing peace and democracy to countries divided by civil war.
Attempts to introduce democracy in the wake of civil war face a critical problem: how can war-torn societies move towards peace and democracy when competitive politics and hard-fought elections exacerbate social and political conflict? Through a study of six themes (peacekeeping…
Why do party systems in some new democracies feature starker divides regarding questions of national and religious identity than those of economic policy? Why do parties in these countries sometimes appear to offer such small or unclear differences regarding economic policy? Wha…
Poland made impressive gains during its democratization phrase between 1989 and 2015. Its economy became significantly more open; formal institutions underwent dramatic changes in checks and balances. Yet the task of sustaining the impressive performance of democratic institutio…
This research intended to understand regime juxtaposition within the third wave of autocratization (1990– ) or, more specifically, to explain why the survival of democracy is achieved in some regions and not in others, at the same time that central governments seek to expand the…
The following thesis analyzes the Kwangju Uprising through the lens of the foreigners living in and around Kwangju who became intimately involved in the crisis, and attempts to analyze both why they became involved and their impact on the crisis. While previous histories on the …
States are path dependent entities that deviate solely in the face of catastrophic failures in the pursuit of axiomatic ends by conventional means. The inertia of bureaucratic institutions, a foreign policy consensus within a self-reproducing elite of experts, the self-interest …
Most of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa achieved their independence after protracted liberation struggles. What explains the variances in their ultimate political development? Why, for example, did some post-conflict states evolve into democracies, while many others failed t…