Description
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.
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction1. The Study of Peaceful Change in World PoliticsT. V. PaulPart II: Historical Perspectives2. Peaceful Change: The Inter-War Era and the Disciplinary ContextTorbjørn L. Knutsen3. Peaceful Change after the World WarsPeter Marcus Kristensen4. Peaceful Change: The Post-Cold War EvolutionJeffrey W. TaliaferroPart III: Theoretical Perspectives5. Realism and Peaceful Change: A Structural and Neoclassical Realist First-CutJoshua Shifrinson6. Liberalism and Peaceful ChangeAlexandra Gheciu7. International Institutions and Peaceful ChangeFrédéric Mérand and Vincent Pouliot8. Economic Interdependence, Globalization, and Peaceful ChangeJohn Ravenhill9. Constructivism and Peaceful ChangeErna Burai and Stephanie C. Hofmann10. Peaceful Change in English School Theory: Great Power Management and Regional OrderCornelia Navari11. Critical Theories and Change in International RelationsAnnette Freyberg-Inan12. Gender and Peaceful ChangeKarin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond13. Civilization, Religion, and Peaceful and Non-Peaceful Change in AsiaVictoria Tin-bor Hui14. Evolutionary Theorization of Peaceful International ChangesShiping TangPart IV: The Sources of Change15. International Law and Peaceful ChangeJennifer M. Welsh16. Nuclear Weapons and Peaceful ChangeMichal Smetana17. The Political Economy of Peaceful ChangeLars S. Skålnes18. Climate Change, Collective Action, and Peaceful ChangeAshok Swain19. Democracy, Global Governance, and Peaceful ChangeThomas Davies20. Status Quest and Peaceful ChangeXiaoyu Pu21. Science, Technology, and Peaceful Change in World PoliticsAnne L. Clunan22. Transnational Social Movements and Peaceful ChangeAlejandro Milcíades PeñaPart V: Great Powers, Rising Powers, and Peaceful Change23. Peaceful Change in US Foreign PolicyDeborah Welch Larson24. China's Peaceful Rise: From Narrative to PracticeKai He and Feng Liu25. Russia and Peaceful Change: From Gorbachev to PutinAndrej Krickovic26. Germany and Peaceful ChangeKlaus Brummer27. Japan and Peaceful Change in the International System: The Persistent Peace NationThomas U. Berger28. India and Peaceful ChangeManjeet S. Pardesi29. South Africa and the Idea of Peaceful ChangePeter Vale30. Indonesia's Contributions to Peaceful Change in International AffairsDewi Fortuna AnwarPart VI: Regional Perspectives31. Peaceful Change in Western Europe: From Balance of Power to Political Community?Anders Wivel32. Origins and Evolution of the North American Stable PeaceDavid G. Haglund33. Latin America's Evolving Contribution to Peaceful Change in the International System: A Stony RoadHarold A. Trinkunas34. Peaceful Change in AfricaMarkus Kornprobst35. Peaceful Change in Southeast Asia: The Historical and Institutional BasesRalf Emmers and Mely Caballero-Anthony36. South Asia: Limited Progress toward Peaceful ChangeRajesh Basrur and Kate Sullivan de Estrada37. Peaceful Change in Northeast Asia: Maintaining the "Minimal Peace"Bhubhindar Singh38. The Middle East and Peaceful ChangeArie M. Kacowicz and Galia Press-Barnathan39. Explaining Peaceful Change in Central and Eastern EuropeAlexander Tabachnik and Benjamin Miller40. Central Asia: A Decolonial Perspective on Peaceful ChangeTimur Dadabaev and John HeathershawPart VII: Conclusions41. A Research Agenda for the Study of Peaceful Change in World PoliticsDeborah Welch Larson, T. V. Paul, Harold A. Trinkunas, Anders Wivel, and Ralf Emmers
