Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines the ongoing power transition and its ramifications for world order from an international society perspective. In that perspective, the outcome of big changes in the distribution of power is a matter of socialization rather than structural determination or the resilience of the so-called Liberal world order. Consequently, the key question of this book is how the ongoing power transition affects, and is affected by, the social institutions of world order including sovereignty, the balance of power, international law, diplomacy, trade, humanitarian intervention, national self-determination, and environmental stewardship. The guiding theoretical assumption of the book is that power transition stimulates fundamental institutional change rather than major conflict or a breakdown of international order, while international organizations are key arenas for the realization and negotiation of such changes, not the victims of hegemonic retreat. The argument is pursued in sections on rising and declining powers (Anglo-America, Russia, China and the EU, among others), consequences for the fundamental social institutions and changes in international organizations, globally and regionally. In combination, the chapters reveal the contours of the coming world order.
Table of Contents1
Introduction: An Institutional Approach to the New World Order
The Editors
PART I: THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS
2. Theories of the power transition
Tonny Brems Knudsen3. Power as a Social Role
Cornelia Navari
PART II: POWERS4. The End of Anglo-America? Barry Buzan and
Mick Cox 5 Russia: Old Approaches to New Circumstances?
Mette Skak6. China, Power Transition, and the Resilience of Pluralist International Society: Beyond Liberalism and Realism
Yongjin Zhang7. Power Transition as a Challenge to Normative Power Europe
Thomas Diez
Part III: RULES8. Power Transition and the Evolution of International Law: Making and Breaking the Rules
Dennis R. Schmidt9. Liberalism and Democracy in a New World Order -
Cornelia Navari10. Humanitarian Intervention
Peter Viggo Jakobsen and Tonny Brems Knudsen
Part IV: INSTITUTIONS11. Power Transition and the Economic Order: How much change?
Eero Palmujoki12. Rising Powers
and a New Culture of Diplomacy
Jamie Gaskarth 13. The US, the OAS and the End of the Monroe Doctrine?
Nicolas Terradas14. China and a New Order in the Arctic
Sanna Kopra
