Peace,Power and Resistance in Cambodia: Global Governance and the Failure of International Conflict Resolution FROM THE PUBLISHER
Does the ongoing dynamics of economic globalization also entail, and indeed require, the globalization of a particular model of peace? This book, as it considers this question, brings to light the degree to which mechanisms of global governance emerging in counterpoint to economic globalization rest on the imposition of specific models of conflict resolution in longstanding conflicts in peripheral regions. The peace-building project at the heart of these efforts often lacks clear connection with the political and institutional configurations at the basis of these conflicts, and for this reason it frequently ends in failure.
Author Biography: Pierre P. Lizée is Assistant Professor of Politics at Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada.
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As the world moves toward a global economic system, politics and even peacemaking have also begun the globalization process. Using Cambodia and the recent UN interventions there as examples, Lizee (politics, Brock U., Canada) argues that the global discourse of conflict resolution can actually impede the peace process in many instances, because it often lacks a connection with the political and institutional configurations of the region in question. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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