IDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Civilizing Mission, Peacebuilding, Liberal Democracy
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International peace building and the mission civilatrice roland. Abstract: international peacebuilding operations seek to stabilise countries that have recently experienced civil wars. In pursuing this goal, however, international peace builders have promulgated a particular vision of how states should organise themselves internally, based on the principles of liberal democracy and market-oriented economics. By reconstructing war- shattered states in accordance with this vision, peace builders ha(cid:448)e effe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ely (cid:858)tra(cid:374)s(cid:373)itted(cid:859) standards of appropriate behaviour from the western-liberal core of the international system to the failed states of the periphery. From this perspective, peacebuilding resembles an updated (and more benign) version of the mission civilisatrice, or the colonial-era belief that the european i(cid:373)perial po(cid:449)ers had a duty to (cid:858)(cid:272)i(cid:448)ilise(cid:859) depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t populatio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d territories. Peacebuilding missions exercise globalization of liberal market democracy, from core to peripheries: globalization may not erode state sovereignty but may enforce it.