Download or read book International Democracy Assistance for Peacebuilding written by Sorpong Peou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains why international donors may succeed in putting war-torn countries on the path of democratic transition and negative peace, but fail to consolidate the gains they make. Critical of neo-institutionalism, but sympathetic to historical and normative institutionalism, this book advances 'complex realist institutionalism' theory.