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.
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Its theoretical ambition, conceptual depth, and historical breadth make this volume a seminal contribution to the study of peaceful change. This book provides profound insight to scholars and practitioners alike into the potential for peaceful international change - but also illuminates the formidable obstacles that stand in its way. Peaceful change has long been understudied; this volume goes a long way toward filling the gap. * Charles A. Kupchan, Georgetown University and Council on Foreign Relations, Author of How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace * Too much commentary on war and peace from pundits and the DC foreign-policy "blob" is based on an anachronistic set of cliches and anecdotes and is ignorant of the growing scholarship on peaceful change from a variety of perspectives. This handbook is a vital resource for introducing depth and fresh ideas into this arena. * Steven Pinker, Harvard University, Author of The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined * In these times of transition and change, it is even more important than before to push the frontiers of our understanding of peaceful change in international relations. This unique volume is a very valuable resource for scholars and students alike. * Evelyn Goh, The Australian National University, Author of The Struggle for Order: Hegemony, Hierarchy and Transition in Post-Cold War Asia * Before the First World War, it was common for intellectuals in Europe and North America to proclaim war to be "necessary for human progress." After that war, the sentiment was only rarely voiced, and over the next hundred years international war has declined greatly as a means for settling differences between states. Nonetheless, human progress has continued quite nicely without war's stimulus. This volume gathers extensive commentary on the often neglected, but clearly important, process of peaceful change. It is much needed. * John Mueller, Ohio State University and Cato Institute, Author of The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency * 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. * Kal Holsti, University of British Columbia, Author of Taming the Sovereigns: Institutional Change in International Politics *
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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.
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James McGill Professor of International RelationsJames McGill Professor of International Relations, McGill University
Professor of Political ScienceProfessor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Deputy Director and Senior Research Scholar of the Centre for International Security and CooperationDeputy Director and Senior Research Scholar of the Centre for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Professor of Political ScienceProfessor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Professor of International Relations and Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International StudiesProfessor of International Relations and Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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
Torbjorn 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
Frederic Merand 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. Skalnes
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 Milciades Pena
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
