ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the dominant neoliberal ideology is constructed and diffused into peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding processes. It also argues that the overwhelming Western hegemony and policy agendas are openly accepted as “truth” and integrated into local policies and governing systems to rebuild legitimate governments, promote economic growth and modernize institutional systems, and maintain a long-lasting peace. From realist perspective, however, the truth of democracy is hard for theocratic mind-guarded leaders, the world’s longest standing leaders or for communist-minded leaders who are in favor communist or religious ideology. The chapter argues that it evolves from the products of Wilson’s public administration and Max Weber’s bureaucracy, and Foucault’s governmentality. The term has been convoluted with complex philosophical and theoretical underpinnings and relevance since the 1990s and it has been globally and locally constructed and operated under the banner of democratic development process.
