| Description |
1 online resource (307 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: The age of intervention and the emergence of a 20th century international peace architecture -- Some background observations, theory, and concepts -- A sketch of the international peace architecture -- Stages one and two in the development of the international peace architecture -- Stage two : the rise of liberal constitutionalism and liberal internationalism -- Stages three and four and the expansion of rights : the critical challenge to stages one and two -- The transition from stage four to stage five of the international peace architecture -- The derailment of the transition to stage five -- Stage five and neoliberal statebuilding -- Stage six : updating emancipatory peace or revisiting geopolitics? -- Implications for different elements of the contemporary peace architecture -- Conclusion: The limits of the old and new possibilities |
| Summary |
"As a consequence of the powerful critique aimed at the only successful international and state level peace architecture in modernity soon after its post-Cold War apogee, the liberal peace system, has been reshaped from above and below. This system had connected military intervention, human rights, democracy, and capitalism with security, peace and order, and both defined and enabled political emancipation in the modern world. Its 'contrapuntal' processes have married a loose alliance of international and local, formal and informal actors, engaged in what became known in policy and academic terms as peacebuilding. Indeed, more broadly the history of much of the international system is focused implicitly on the production of peace of varying qualities, even as war and competition remain endemic. As Hinsley, once pointed out (echoing many idealist, pacifist, and critical thinkers before him), the aim of planning a 'perpetual peace' is probably as old as war itself. Just war thinking, spanning Aristotle and Cicero to Augustine was an important step along the way, seeking ethical control over war, perhaps through international law. Dante sought a universal peace in his book, Monarchia, written in 1310, but mainly to expand Empire. Marsilius of Padua argued in his book Defensor Pacis in 1326 that world government would not bring peace because it would lead to revolution. Erasmus, in his famous book, The Complaint of Peace, published in 1521, offered the dimension of pacificism and also rejected just war thinking"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed May 5, 2023) |
| Subject |
Peace-building -- International cooperation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020043931 |
| ISBN |
9780190850463 |
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0190850469 |
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0190850450 |
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9780190850470 |
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0190850477 |
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9780190850456 |
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