This book investigates the struggle between peace and counter-peace and lays out the contours of the emerging counter-peace architecture in the international transitional order. In particular, it examines how counter-peace tactics have been evolving into strategies and the role ideologies play in this process. Hence, the authors' concept of counter-peace is used as a tool to critically interrogate a potentially systemic array of blockages to peace, juxtaposing peace processes with counter-revolutionary theory. They argue that distinct patterns are emerging in the blockage of peace and reform processes. This book elaborates the most prevalent patterns in stagnating and faltering peace processes:  the stalemate, the limited counter-peace and the unmitigated counter-peace.  weiterlesen