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Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars

Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars Paperback / softback - 2005

by Philip G. Roeder

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Paperback / softback. New. How can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace and foster democracy in ethnically divided societies after conflicts as destructive as civil wars? This volume compares power-dividing and power-sharing solutions.
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  • Title Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars
  • Author Philip G. Roeder
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press
  • Date 2005-09-26
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780801489747
  • ISBN 9780801489747 / 0801489741
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.68 x 0.93 in (23.42 x 16.97 x 2.36 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Conflict management, Peace-building
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005013976
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.172

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How can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace and foster democracy in ethnically divided societies after conflicts as destructive as civil wars? Under turbulent conditions the leaders of ethnic groups, governments, and international organizations face the challenge of designing political arrangements that can simultaneously meet the tests of equal representation, democratic accountability, effective governance, and political stability. At critical junctures in the transition from intense (often violent) conflict, power-sharing arrangements may offer a compromise acceptable to most ethnic elites.

Philip G. Roeder and Donald Rothchild find that these short-term accommodations come with high longer-term costs: the very institutions that provide a basis to end a conflict in an ethnically divided country may hinder the consolidation of peace and democracy over the longer term. The contributors to Sustainable Peace examine institutional settlements in Ethiopia, Lebanon, India, and South Africa as well as the Soviet successor states, south Asia, central Africa, west Africa, and the Balkans. Roeder, Rothchild, and most of the contributors conclude that power-dividing, rather than power-sharing, solutions are more likely to result in durable political compacts and peace.

Contributors: Amit Ahuja, University of Michigan; Eduardo Alemn, University of Houston; Valerie Bunce, Cornell University; Caroline Hartzell, Gettysburg College; Matthew Hoddie, Texas A&M University; Edmond J. Keller, UCLA; David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego; Benjamin Reilly, Australian National University; Philip G. Roeder, University of California, San Diego; Donald Rothchild, University of California, Davis; Timothy D. Sisk, University of Denver; Lahra Smith, UCLA; Christoph Stefes, University of Colorado, Denver; Daniel Treisman, UCLA; Ashutosh Varshney, University of Michigan; Stephen Watts, Cornell University; Marie-Jolle Zahar, Universit de Montral

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On April 15, 2003, near the city of Nasiriyah about 50 Iraqis assembled on a military base for the first of a series of meetings around the country to discuss broad outlines of a constitution for postwar Iraq.

About the author

Philip G. Roeder is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics and coauthor of Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy. The late Donald Rothchild was Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He was the author of Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Pressures and Incentives for Cooperation, coauthor of Sovereignty as Responsibility: Conflict Management in Africa, and coeditor of The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation.

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