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Making War and Building Peace and Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2007

Michael J. Gilligan
Michael J. Gilligan
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New York University
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Making War and Building Peace. By Michael W. Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 400p. $24.95.

Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars. Edited by Philip G. Roeder and Donald Rothchild. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 392p. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

The two books discussed in this review address the same substantive question: How does one establish sustainable peace after civil war? However, their approaches are quite different. The Roeder and Rothchild edited volume focuses on one aspect of establishing postwar peace—the post–civil war political institutions of the country. Doyle and Sambanis focus on the role of the United Nations in helping to establish sustainable postwar peace. I will first address the edited volume and then turn to the Doyle and Sambanis book before offering a few concluding remarks.

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BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 208 - 210
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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