Local Legitimacy in Peacebuilding

Pathways to Local Compliance with International Police Reform

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ID19920539
AuthorsBirte Julia Gippert (0000-0002-7960-4725, University of Liverpool, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages218
Publication date2017-08-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueLocal Legitimacy in Peacebuilding (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315171739
OpenAlexW4238903742
Open LibraryOL33559641M
ISBN9781315171739
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This book analyses the role of legitimacy in explaining local actors’ compliance with international peacebuilding operations. The book provides a comparative, micro-level study of local actors’ reasons for compliance with or resistance to international peacebuilding. Specifically, it analyses three pathways to compliance –legitimacy, coercion, and reward-seeking – to explore local police officers’ compliance with the reforms stipulated by the EU Police Mission in Bosnia and the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo. The work constructs a holistic framework of the mechanisms connecting each pathway to compliance and measures legitimacy using micro-level indicators. This study not only shines light on the question why local actors comply, a crucial factor in mission effectiveness, but it also illuminates exactly how compliance works. The book contributes nuanced evidence about the often-heralded importance of legitimacy in peacebuilding, showing exactly in which situations local legitimacy matters and in which it does not. It is also highly relevant for policy-makers as it unpacks and explains the mechanisms behind local legitimacy, assisting in understanding this usually nebulous concept. This book demonstrates the need for micro-level analysis by revealing the relevant processes of legitimation usually hidden behind commonly perceived social fault lines, such as the Serb-Albanian divide in Kosovo. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, Balkans politics, security studies and International Relations

Conditionality · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Legitimation · Peacebuilding · Peacekeeping · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology · Europe · Peace · Peaceful change (International relations) · politics and government · Transformations pacifiques (Relations internationales)

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