For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of
international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few
examples of developing countries that are even relatively untouched
by it. Sarah G. Phillips's When There Was No Aid offers us one such
example. Using evidence from Somaliland's experience of
peace-building, When There Was No Aid challenges two of the most
engrained presumptions about violence and poverty in the global
South. First, that intervention by actors in the global North is
self-evidently useful in ending them, and second that the quality
of a country's governance institutions (whether formal or informal)
necessarily determines the level of peace and civil order that the
country experiences. Phillips explores how popular discourses about
war, peace, and international intervention structure the conditions
of possibility to such a degree that even the inability of
institutions to provide reliable security can stabilize a prolonged
period of peace. She argues that Somaliland's post-conflict peace
is grounded less in the constraining power of its institutions than
in a powerful discourse about the country's structural, temporal,
and physical proximity to war. Through its sensitivity to the ease
with which peace gives way to war, Phillips argues, this discourse
has indirectly harnessed an apparent propensity to war as a source
of order.
General
Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2020 |
Authors: |
Sarah G. Phillips
(Senior Lecturer)
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Dimensions: |
237 x 160 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-4715-1 |
Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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LSN: |
1-5017-4715-0 |
Barcode: |
9781501747151 |
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Challenges the dominant liberal peacebuiliding intervention model
Tue, 5 Jul 2022 | Review
by: Michelle S.
An accessible and easy read, great insights that challenges traditional thinking about externally led intervention, peace and stabilization missions. Great customer service and delivery time by Loot!
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