When the Shooting Stops
Democracy and markets, although desirable, can be destabilizing January–February 2005
Roland Paris’s At War’s End is all about time and timing. It is a scholarly study of peacebuilding in broken countries after internal or civil strife and a practical prescription for doing it better in the future. Paris’s prescription says: don’t rush to create liberal market democracies in post-conflict states without first creating the institutions necessary to support…