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Rebuilding War-Torn States: The Challenge of Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction

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This book offers a great comprehensive overview of the common challenges that post-conflict nations face. It does so by intertwining all relevant aspects in post-conflict states -political, social, etc- and not from a purely "classical" economic perspective.
Del Castillo emphasizes the fact that reconstruction means, in these cases, 'not development as usual', and does so by using a myriad of cases that clearly illustrate her ideas throughout the book.
I find the manner in which the case studies are turned into a sort of "road map", into a clear set of practical guidelines and lessons learned to be very useful to any reader, academic or practitioner.

This is an excellent book on how economics is key to maintaining the peace. As someone involved in peace operations but without an economics background, i was reluctant to read this book since i thought it was beyond my comprehension.
everything is explained in ways that make a lot of sense and is easily understandable. the four case studies are really fascinating and a must to whoever goes into conflict or post-conflict countries. In fact, this book is excellent for countries in the north of Africa and the middle east in transition from dictatorships to democracies and how to approach the economic transition, so that it is not conflict-creating but rather peace-supporting

The book is very readable for non-economists. The topic is important, timely and interesting. The author's experience and knowledge are deep and she applies it logically to several case studies including Iraq and Afghanistan. I would highly recommend the book to anyone with an interest or a need to better understand international politics.