Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations

This work provides a thorough examination of research on the problem of change in the international arena and the reasons why change happens peacefully at times, and at others, violently. It contains over forty chapters, which examine the historical, theoretical, global, regional, and national foreign-policy dimensions of peaceful change. As the world enters a new round of power transition conflict, involving a rapidly rising China and a relatively declining United States, this Handbook provides a necessary resource for decisionmakers and scholars engaged in this vital area of research.

List of contents

• Part I: Introduction


• 1. The Study of Peaceful Change in World Politics


• T. V. Paul


• Part II: Historical Perspectives


• 2. Peaceful Change: The Inter-War Era and the Disciplinary Context


• Torbjørn L. Knutsen


• 3. Peaceful Change after the World Wars


• Peter Marcus Kristensen


• 4. Peaceful Change: The Post-Cold War Evolution


• Jeffrey W. Taliaferro


• Part III: Theoretical Perspectives


• 5. Realism and Peaceful Change: A Structural and Neoclassical Realist First-Cut


• Joshua Shifrinson


• 6. Liberalism and Peaceful Change


• Alexandra Gheciu


• 7. International Institutions and Peaceful Change


• Frédéric Mérand and Vincent Pouliot


• 8. Economic Interdependence, Globalization, and Peaceful Change


• John Ravenhill


• 9. Constructivism and Peaceful Change


• Erna Burai and Stephanie C. Hofmann


• 10. Peaceful Change in English School Theory: Great Power Management and Regional Order


• Cornelia Navari


• 11. Critical Theories and Change in International Relations


• Annette Freyberg-Inan


• 12. Gender and Peaceful Change


• Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond


• 13. Civilization, Religion, and Peaceful and Non-Peaceful Change in Asia


• Victoria Tin-bor Hui


• 14. Evolutionary Theorization of Peaceful International Changes


• Shiping Tang


• Part IV: The Sources of Change


• 15. International Law and Peaceful Change


• Jennifer M. Welsh


• 16. Nuclear Weapons and Peaceful Change


• Michal Smetana


• 17. The Political Economy of Peaceful Change


• Lars S. Skålnes


• 18. Climate Change, Collective Action, and Peaceful Change


• Ashok Swain


• 19. Democracy, Global Governance, and Peaceful Change


• Thomas Davies


• 20. Status Quest and Peaceful Change


• Xiaoyu Pu


• 21. Science, Technology, and Peaceful Change in World Politics


• Anne L. Clunan


• 22. Transnational Social Movements and Peaceful Change


• Alejandro Milcíades Peña


• Part V: Great Powers, Rising Powers, and Peaceful Change


• 23. Peaceful Change in US Foreign Policy


• Deborah Welch Larson


• 24. China's Peaceful Rise: From Narrative to Practice


• Kai He and Feng Liu


• 25. Russia and Peaceful Change: From Gorbachev to Putin


• Andrej Krickovic


• 26. Germany and Peaceful Change


• Klaus Brummer


• 27. Japan and Peaceful Change in the International System: The Persistent Peace Nation


• Thomas U. Berger


• 28. India and Peaceful Change


• Manjeet S. Pardesi


• 29. South Africa and the Idea of Peaceful Change


• Peter Vale


• 30. Indonesia's Contributions to Peaceful Change in International Affairs


• Dewi Fortuna Anwar


• Part VI: Regional Perspectives


• 31. Peaceful Change in Western Europe: From Balance of Power to Political Community?


• Anders Wivel


• 32. Origins and Evolution of the North American Stable Peace


• David G. Haglund


• 33. Latin America's Evolving Contribution to Peaceful Change in the International System: A Stony Road


• Harold A. Trinkunas


• 34. Peaceful Change in Africa


• Markus Kornprobst


• 35. Peaceful Change in Southeast Asia: The Historical and Institutional Bases


• Ralf Emmers and Mely Caballero-Anthony


• 36. South Asia: Limited Progress toward Peaceful Change


• Rajesh Basrur and Kate Sullivan de Estrada


• 37. Peaceful Change in Northeast Asia: Maintaining the "Minimal Peace"


• Bhubhindar Singh


• 38. The Middle East and Peaceful Change


• Arie M. Kacowicz and Galia Press-Barnathan


• 39. Explaining Peaceful Change in Central and Eastern Europe


• Alexander Tabachnik and Benjamin Miller


• 40. Central Asia: A Decolonial Perspective on Peaceful Change


• Timur Dadabaev and John Heathershaw


• Part VII: Conclusions


• 41. A Research Agenda for the Study of Peaceful Change in World Politics


• Deborah Welch Larson, T. V. Paul, Harold A. Trinkunas, Anders Wivel, and Ralf Emmers

About the author

T. V. Paul is the James McGill Professor of International Relations at McGill University.

Deborah Welch Larson is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Harold A. Trinkunas is Deputy Director and Senior Research Scholar of the Centre for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.

Anders Wivel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen.

Ralf Emmers is Professor and Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Summary

The discipline of international relations offers much insight into why violent power transitions occur, yet there have been few substantive examinations of why and how peaceful changes happen in world politics. This work is the first comprehensive treatment of that subject.

The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations provides a thorough examination of research on the problem of change in the international arena and the reasons why change happens peacefully at times, and at others, violently. It contains over forty chapters, which examine the historical, theoretical, global, regional, and national foreign-policy dimensions of peaceful change. As the world enters a new round of power transition conflict, involving a rapidly rising China and a relatively declining United States, this Handbook provides a necessary resource for decisionmakers and scholars engaged in this vital area of research.

Additional text

This handbook examines one of the critical questions of international politics going back to Immanuel Kant: how to explain and promote peaceful change in the relations between states. This issue was a major concern of international relations scholars in the 1930s, but since the Cold War, it has been sidelined by other concerns. The editors have mobilized a group of international authors to explore the issue. Forty-one outstanding chapters address the problem from diverse theoretical, historical, and regional perspectives. This handbook should help restore the problem of peaceful change to the center of the discipline.

Product details

• Authors: T. V. Paul, T. V. (EDT)/ Larson Paul, T. V. (James Mcgill Professor of Internation Paul
• Assisted by: Ralf Emmers (Editor), Emmers Ralf (Editor), Deborah Welch Larson (Editor), T. V. Paul (Editor), Paul T. V. (Editor), Harold A. Trinkunas (Editor), Trinkunas Harold A. (Editor), Anders Wivel (Editor), Wivel Anders (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780190097356
• ISBN: 978-0-19-009735-6
• No. of pages: 840
• Series: Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution