Aila M. Matanock

Electing Peace (eBook, PDF)

From Civil Conflict to Political Participation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Settlements to civil conflict, which are notably difficult to secure, sometimes contain clauses enabling the combatant sides to participate as political parties in post-conflict elections. In Electing Peace, Aila M. Matanock presents a theory that explains both the causes and the consequences of these provisions. Matanock draws on new worldwide cross-national data on electoral participation provisions, case studies in Central America, and interviews with representatives of all sides of the conflicts. She shows that electoral participation provisions, non-existent during the Cold War, are now in almost half of all peace agreements. Moreover, she demonstrates that these provisions are associated with an increase in the chance that peace will endure, potentially contributing to a global decline in civil conflict, a result which challenges prevailing pessimism about post-conflict elections. Matanock's theory and evidence also suggest a broader conception of international intervention than currently exists, identifying how these inclusive elections can enable external enforcement mechanisms and provide an alternative to military coercion by peacekeeping troops in many cases.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108103008
• Artikelnr.: 53052443

Autorenporträt

Aila M. Matanock is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research addresses international intervention, civil conflict, and weak states. Her Stanford University dissertation, on which this book is based, won the 2013 Helen Dwight Reid Award from the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation from the previous two years in international relations, law, and politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction and Theory: 1. Credible transitions from civil
conflict: provisions for combatant participation in post-conflict
elections; 2. Electoral participation provisions: a theory of external
engagement; 3. International involvement over time: changes with the end of
the Cold War and patterns there-after; Part II. Causes of Electoral
Participation Provisions: 4. Trading bullets for ballots: examining the
inclusion of electoral participation provisions; 5. Shifting expectations
of engagement: paving a path for peace agreements based on electoral
participation provisions; Part III. Consequences of Electoral Participation
Provisions: 6. Participating for peace: examining the effect of electoral
participation provisions on peace; 7. Engaging through elections: external
observation and incentives around elections during implementation; Part IV.
Conclusion: 8. Securing peace: conclusions about electoral participation
and external engagement in post-conflict states.