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International Democracy Assistance for Peacebuilding: The Cambodian Experience (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)
International Democracy Assistance for Peacebuilding The Cambodian Experience - Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Author:Sorpong Peou This book seeks to explain why international donors may succeed in putting war-torn countries on the path of democratic transition and negative peace, but fail to consolidate the gains they make. Cambodia provides an excellent example for international peace builders: the donor community spent billions of dollars rebuilding the country between 1... more »992 and 2006, but democracy remains unconsolidated and may even be receding towards "electoral dictatorship." Critical of neo-institutionalism, but sympathetic to historical and normative institutionalism, this book advances a theory called "complex realist institutionalism" to explain the limits of international democracy assistance to post-war societies.« less