The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations

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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. Contents About the Editors Contributors Acknowledgments PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. The Study of Peaceful Change in World Politics • T. V. Paul PART II: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 2. Peaceful Change: The Interwar 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 Gh 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-borHui 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’s Limited Progress toward Peaceful Change 663Rajesh 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 Index