Title: Interim governments : institutional bridges to peace and democracy? /
Authors: Guttieri, Karen, 1963-; Piombo, Jessica.
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Interim governments.; Peace-building.; Democratization.
Abstract: This edited volume by Karen Guttieri and Jessica Piombo explores various aspects of the newly emerging range of interim regimes, focusing on issues of legitimacy, conflict management, and the increasing participation of the international community in transitions from war to peace. Through a set of theoretical and case-study chapters, they and the volume's contributing authors ask and answer key questions: What sorts of interim governments are in use around the world today, and how do they affect the quality of regime that results once the interim period has ended? How does international involvement affect the balance of power between domestic elites? How does the type of interim regime affect the nature of the post-transition government? Is democracy always the outcome? Timely, insightful, and compelling, Interim Governments provides important insights in a world where terms such as "regime change" and "nation building" have become common currency and will be a valuable tool for practitioners and academics alike. -- Publisher's Description.
Contents: Theoretical considerations -- Issues and debates in transitional rule / Karen Guttieri and Jessica Piombo -- Knocking on heaven's door: meeting social expectations in post-conflic transitions / Antonio Donini -- Interim governments and the construction of political elites / Carrie Manning -- Executive power-sharing systems: conflict management or confict escalation? / Donald Rothchild -- Must they go through Hobbes? The revolutionary provisional government model and political challenge in externally imposed regimes / Andrew J. Enterline and J. Michael Greig -- Case studies -- Multiple translations and interim governance in El Salvador and Guatamale / William D. Stanley -- Inchoate opposition, divided incumbents: muddling toward democracy in Indonesia, 1998-99 / Michael S. Malley -- Transitional governance in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Devon Curtis -- Interim government in Liberia: peace building toward the status quo / E. Philip Morgan -- International interim governments, democratization, and post-conflict peace building: lessons from Cambodia and East Timor / Aurel Croissant -- State building before statehood: Kosovo's evolution from an interim polity to "Conditional Independence" / Lenard J. Cohen -- Interim notions of statehood in Bosnia-Herzegovina: a permanent transition? / Mark Baskin -- Afghanistan's post-Taliban transition: state building after war / Thomas H. Johnston -- Is this any way to run an occupation? legitimacy, governance, and security in post-conflict Iraq / Christina Caan, Beth Cole, Paul Hughes, and Daniel P. Serwer -- Conclusions -- Conclusions and policy implications: yes, it makes a difference / Daniel P. Serwer.