Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- List of peace operations -- List of illustrations -- Glossary of abbreviations and technical terms -- About the author -- Introduction -- I.1 Concept foundations -- I.2 The objective -- I.3 Justification: why do peacebuilding, democratization, civil wars, and fragile states matter? -- I.4 A note on global peace data: is the world becoming more or less peaceful? -- I.5 A note on postwar democratization: democratic peace theory and sequential transition models -- I.6 Book structure -- I.7 Methodology: research design -- I.8 Definitions: what are we talking about? -- I.9 Overview of the chapters -- Notes -- References -- Part I Transitional dilemmas, violent democracies, and the United Nations's statecraft -- Chapter 1 The transition from civil war to hybrid peace: 14 dilemmas of peace, democracy, and state-building in post-conflict societies -- 1.1 Transition from hybrid war to hybrid liberal peace: background approach -- 1.2 Theoretical foundation: transitional dilemmas -- 1.3 Dilemmas and trade-offs between efforts to promote peace or democracy: an advanced approach -- 1.4 Premises of the Philosophical-Actors-Tactical (P-A-T) framework of transitional post-conflict and peacebuilding dilemmas: its properties and limitations -- 1.5 Summary of the chapter -- References -- Chapter 2 United Nations hybrid liberal peace dilemmas: Contingent sovereignty, responsibility to protect and moral selectiveness -- 2.1 United Nations's statecraft: "benign" autocracy versus autonomy -- 2.2 Westphalia versus post-Westphalia peace: legality, legitimacy, sovereignty, and R2P -- 2.3 Who deserves to be free and safe? Selectiveness, efficiency, and other dilemmas -- 2.4 Summary of the chapter -- Note -- References.