The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations 1st edition by Oxford University Press 0190097388 9780190097387

Part I Introduction

1. The Study of Peaceful Change in World Politics

Defining Peaceful Change

The Study of Peaceful Change in Historical Perspective

Theoretical Perspectives and Their Challenges

Great Powers, Rising Powers, and Peaceful Change

Peaceful Change in the Regions

The Chapters

Part II Historical Perspectives

2. Peaceful Change: The Interwar Era and the Disciplinary Context

The Institutional Context: The League and Its Commissions

Preparing for Paris: Introducing Peaceful Change

Discussing Peaceful Change I: Tensions in the Discourse

Discussing Peaceful Change II: Assumptions of Scholarship and Science

Conclusions

3. Peaceful Change after the World Wars

Geopolitical and Technological Developments: From Peaceful Change to Peaceful Coexistence

Peaceful Change and the Postwar Politics of Appeasement and Containment

From Colonial to Anticolonial Peaceful Change

Disciplinary and Institutional Changes: International Politics and Law

Intellectual Developments: A Swing from Idealist to Realist Peaceful Change?

Peaceful Change in Functionalist and Neofunctionalist IR

Conclusion

4. Peaceful Change: The Post–Cold War Evolution

Unipolarity and Peaceful Change

US Liberal Hegemony and Peaceful Change

Globalization and Peaceful Change

Conclusions

Part III Theoretical Perspectives

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

What Is Peaceful Change?

Realism_ Review and Reprise

Prospects for Type I Peaceful Change: Arguments and Illustrations

Type II Change: Arguments and Illustrations

Conclusion: Toward a Research Agenda

6. Liberalism and Peaceful Change

Liberal Ideas about International Order and Peace

Implementing Liberal Ideas in International Politics

The Crisis of Liberalism? Contemporary Challenges to the Liberal Order

7. International Institutions and Peaceful Change

How Institutions Promote Peaceful Change

How Institutions Inhibit Peaceful Change

Conclusion

8. Economic Interdependence, Globalization, and Peaceful Change

Economic Interdependence Enhances the Prospects for Peaceful Change

Alternatives to the Liberal Approach: Economic Interdependence Enhances the Prospects for Interstate Conflict

Conceptualizing and Measuring the Independent Variable

The Dependent Variable

Interdependence and Peaceful Change in an Era of Globalization

Conclusion

9. Constructivism and Peaceful Change

The Origins of Constructivism_ Peaceful Change

Open to Change: The Power of Collective Meanings

Peaceful Change: Concepts and Mechanisms

Biases: Are All Changes Peaceful?

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

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

The Men (and One Woman) of 1937

Order and Justice after Manning

The Club of Powers

Regional Rules of the Game

Conclusion

11. Critical Theories and Change in International Relations

What Are “Critical IR Theories”?

Violence as Ubiquitous, Commitment to Peace as a Handicap

The Need for Fundamental Change, and Where It Might Come From

Conclusion

12. Gender and Peaceful Change

Gender, War, and Conflict

Gender, Feminism, and Peaceful Change

Policy Formulations on Gender and Peaceful Change

Conclusion

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

Clash of Civilizations in Plural and Pluralist Asia

Canonical Ambiguity, and Peaceful and Violent Change

Change Agents, Institutional Weaknesses, and Peaceful and Violent Change

Islam in Afghanistan and Indonesia

Hinduism, and Peaceful and Violent Change in India

Buddhism, and Peaceful and Violent Change in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Tibet

Confucianism, Chinese Civilization, and Peaceful and Violent Change in China

Conclusion

14. Evolutionary Theorization of Peaceful International Changes

Why an Evolutionary Approach toward Human Society?

Evolution: From Biological to Social

Evolutionary Theorization of International Relations: From Anti/Pseudo to Genuine

Peaceful International Changes: Five Issue Domains

Conclusions

Part IV The Sources of Change

15. International Law and Peaceful Change

Understanding International Law

The Laws of War and Peaceful Change

International Law and Systemic Change: The Creation of New States

Conclusion

16. Nuclear Weapons and Peaceful Change

Nuclear Deterrence

Nuclear Arms Control

Nuclear Nonproliferation

Nuclear Nonuse

Nuclear Disarmament

Key Linkages and Conflicts

Conclusions

17. The Political Economy of Peaceful Change

Economic Interdependence and Peaceful Change

Economic Statecraft

Conclusions

18. Climate Change, Collective Action, and Peaceful Change

Climate Change and Insecurities

Collective Action Toward Limiting Climate Change Threats

Climate Change Bringing Peaceful Change by Promoting Global Partnership

19. Democracy, Global Governance, and Peaceful Change

The Debate in Historical Perspective

National Democracy and Peaceful Change

Democratic Global Governance and Peaceful Change

Transnational Democracy and Peaceful Change

Future Prospects

20. Status Quest and Peaceful Change

Status Quest and International Conflict

Status Quest and Peaceful Change

Status Quest and Minimalist Peaceful Change

Status Quest and Maximalist Peaceful Change

Conclusion

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

S/T, Peaceful Change, and Security

S/T, Peaceful Change, and International Organization

S/T, Peaceful Change, and the Global Economy

Conceptualizing Peaceful Change in World Politics

Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change and the Fourth Technological Revolution

Author’s Note

22. Transnational Social Movements and Peaceful Change

Conveyor Belts, Emancipation, and Peace

The Divide of Civil Society

Revolutions, Change, and Violence

Conclusion

Part V Great Powers, Rising Powers, and Peaceful Change

23. Peaceful Change in US Foreign Policy

Anglo-American Leadership Transition

Wilsonian Internationalism

Post–World War II Settlement

Nixon-Kissinger “Structure of Peace”

Post–Cold War Multilateralism

Conclusion

24. China’s Peaceful Rise: From Narrative to Practice

The Origin of China’s “Peaceful Rise” Strategy

Why “Peaceful Rise”?

“Peaceful Rise” in Practice

Conclusion: China’s Peaceful Rise in the Future?

25. Russia and Peaceful Change: From Gorbachev to Putin

Gorbachev’s Revolutionary New Thinking

Yeltsin: From Domestic Transformation and Western Integration to Anti-Hegemonic (Soft) Balancing

Putin: From Pragmatic Partnership to Reactionary Neorevisionism

Conclusions

26. Germany and Peaceful Change

Pursuing Peaceful Foreign Policy Change

Pursuing Peaceful Regional Change

Pursuing Peaceful Global Change

Conclusion

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

The Genesis of Japan as a “Peace Nation”

The Peace Nation in Practice: 1960 to 2012

The Peace Nation in the Dragon’s Maw

Conclusion

28. India and Peaceful Change

Decolonization

Panchsheel

Nuclear Disarmament

“Look/Act East” Strategy

The Indo-Pacific

Conclusion

29. South Africa and the Idea of Peaceful Change

Vocabulary

Placeholder

Soft Power

African Player

The Struggle Continues

30. Indonesia’s ContributionS to Peaceful Change in International Affairs

From Revolutionary Politics to Developmental Peace

Indonesia’s Role as a Middle Power

Promoting Moderate Islam and Democracy as a New Foreign Policy Agenda

Conclusion

Part VI Regional Perspectives

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

From the Epicenter of War to Pax Europaea

Hobbesian Europe: Containing Enmity in International Anarchy

Lockean Europe: The Rational Response to Rivalry

Kantian Europe and Beyond: Widening and Deepening the Western European Security Community

Conclusions

32. Origins and Evolution of the North American Stable Peace

The North American “Zone of War”

The North American Zone of Peace

Conclusion: What’s Mexico Got to Do with It?

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

Realism, Neorealism, and Latin America

Liberalism, Liberal Institutionalism, and the Americas

Constructivist Approaches to Peaceful Change in Latin America

The Role of Systemic and Subsystemic Factors on Regional Transformation

Latin America’s Past and Future Trajectories in the Domains of Peace and Order

34. Peaceful Change in Africa

Liberty: Peaceful Change as Establishing Horizontal Relations with the World

Unity: Peaceful Change as Standing Together

Development: Peaceful Change as Progressing Economically

Pacific Settlement of Disputes: Managing Conflicts by Agreement

Democracy: Peaceful Change as Rule by the People

Challenges: The Elusiveness of Peaceful Change

Conclusion

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

Historical Perspectives: From Building a “Zone of Peace” to Navigating Great Power Competition

Theoretical Perspectives

Dealing with Change

Conclusion

36. South Asia’s Limited Progress toward Peaceful Change

Regional Interstate Dynamics

Postcolonial South Asia: The Cold War Era

The Post–Cold War Era: Changing Patterns

Institutions and Peaceful Change in South Asia

Conclusion

37. Peaceful Change in Northeast Asia: Maintaining the “Minimal Peace”

Transitions of Northeast Asian Order

Minimal Peace in Northeast Asia

Fraying of Minimal Peace in Northeast Asia?

Conclusion

38. The Middle East and Peaceful Change

Great Powers, Global Structures, and Regional Peaceful Change

The Regional Level: Ideas, Institutions, and the Challenges to Peaceful Change

The Interactive/Bilateral Level: Peaceful Territorial Change in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Domestic Political Changes and Regional Peaceful Change

Conclusions

39. Explaining Peaceful Change in Central and Eastern Europe

Realist Explanation for Peaceful Change and Its Limitations

The Theoretical Framework: The State-to-Nation Balance

Peaceful Change in Czechoslovakia versus Civil War in the Former Yugoslavia

Great Powers’ Influence and the Conflict-Peace Continuum in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic States

Post-Soviet States

Great Power Intervention in the Former Yugoslavia

Conclusion

40. Central Asia: A Decolonial Perspective on Peaceful Change

Post-Soviet Peaceful Change and the Untold Agency of Central Asian States

Illiberal Peace? A Local and Global Transition

Postcolonial Change and the Decolonization of IR in Central Asia

Toward a Comparative and Global Approach to Change in Central Asia

Part VII Conclusions

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

Historical Perspectives

Theoretical Perspectives

Sources and Mechanisms of Change

Great Powers and Rising Powers as Agents of Peaceful Change

Regional Orders and Peaceful Change