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Author: Kristen E. Boon

28 Aug

Post-conflict reconstruction strategies today emphasize economic reconstruction measures as a matter of course. Measures have included commercial law reform to attract FDI, natural resource management, and the issuance of new currencies. This emphasis on the economic dimensions of peace maintenance draws from research by Paul Collier and others showing that states with higher levels of economic growth are...

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27 Aug

Thank you for this opportunity to guest blog on Opinio Juris. I would like to start with some comments on post-conflict reconstruction - an issue that now tops the UN's security agenda, and is one of the biggest foreign policy challenges for the US. In less than 2 decades, multilateral intervention in post conflict zones has shifted from short...

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