Reforms, Elite Power Politics and the Rise of New Political Actors in FATA: Reconceptualising Liberal and Post-Liberal Peace through Patronage, Legitimacy, and Contestation

• In Event: Foreign Policy in South Asia

Brief Overview

The paper challenges liberal peacebuilding by exposing the limits of externally imposed reforms. It also challenges post-liberal peace by contesting romantic claims that ‘the local’ is participatory or emancipatory, showing its exclusionary politics.

Author

• Mian Abid Shah, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia, Melaka