Part I Introduction; 1 The Twenty Years' Crisis; Introduction; The End of Peacebuilding; The 'Hubris' of Liberal Peacebuilding; The Pragmatic Apologia; The Return of Realism; The Contents of the Book; 2 The Pragmatic Critique; Introduction; The 'Political' Critique; The Emergence of 'Pragmatist' Critique; A 'Critical' Consensus?; International Peacebuilding and the Critique of Liberalism; Too Liberal?; Beyond the Critique of the Liberal Peacebuilding?; Conclusion; Part II The Rise of Peacebuilding; 3 The Birth of a Mission; Introduction