The Post-Conflict Environment: Investigation and Critique. Daniel Bertrand Monk and Jacob Mundy, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014.
In case studies focusing on contemporary crises spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, the scholars in this volume examine the dominant prescriptive practices of late neoliberal post-conflict interventions—such as statebuilding, peacebuilding, transitional justice, refugee management, reconstruction, and redevelopment—and contend that the post-conflict environment is in fact created and sustained by this international technocratic paradigm of peacebuilding.