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Illiberal peacebuilding in Angola*

  • Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (a1)
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Angola's oil-fuelled reconstruction since the end of the civil war in 2002 is a world away from the mainstream liberal peacebuilding approach that Western donors have promoted and run since the end of cold war. The Angolan case is a pivotal example of what can be termed ‘illiberal peacebuilding’, a process of post-war reconstruction managed by local elites in defiance of liberal peace precepts on civil liberties, the rule of law, the expansion of economic freedoms and poverty alleviation, with a view to constructing a hegemonic order and an elite stranglehold over the political economy. Making sense of the Angolan case is a starting point for a broader comparative look at other cases of illiberal peacebuilding such as Rwanda, Lebanon and Sri Lanka.

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Email: ricardo.soaresdeoliveira@politics.ox.ac.uk
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Research for this article was made possible by a British Academy Small Research Grant. Most of the writing took place during a three-month period as visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, from April to June 2010. I thank Robert Litwak and Robert Hathaway in particular for their great hospitality at the Wilson Center. I also thank Sebastian Bock for research assistance, Nic Cheeseman and Jan-Georg Deutsch for inviting me to present this paper at a seminar in Oxford, and Thorsten Benner, Mats Berdal, Richard Caplan, Christopher Clapham, Manuel Ennes Ferreira, Daniel Large and two anonymous referees for useful comments.

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