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Approaches -- Domestic politics -- International anarchy and institutions -- Power -- War, peace and security

Introduction: the changing ethics of power beyond borders / Jean-Marc Coicaud and Nicholas J. Wheeler -- Solidarity versus security -- India and Pakistan : from zero-sum to shared security / Samina Yasmeen -- Sino--US relations : a nascent security regime? / Alan Collins -- Assessing the logic of solidarity and national interest in great power interventionism -- Cultures of solidarity and national interest : Russia's conflict management policies / Ekaterina Stepanova -- International intervention in Central Asia : the triumph of geopolitics? / Parviz Mullojanov -- Cultural constructions of solidarity : the US and the EU in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Mira Sucharov -- Beyond geopolitics and solidarism : interpenetrated sovereignty, transnational conflict and the United States' "Plan Colombia" / Doug Stokes -- Toward an ethics of human solidarity -- An intersection of interests and value : US foreign policy toward Africa / Timothy W. Docking -- Geopolitics and solidarity on the borders of Europe : the Yugoslav wars of succession / Alex J. Bellamy -- Is East Timor an exception in the Southeast Asian landscape? / Geoffrey C. Gunn -- Conclusion : making sense of national interest and international solidarity / Nicholas J. Wheeler and Jean-Marc Coicaud

What is peace? This basic question often appears in contemporary orthodoxy to have been settled in favor of the 'liberal peace.' Yet, this has, in many post-conflict settings, proved to create a 'virtual peace'-empty states & institutions which are ambivalent about everyday life. In this context peace is widely referred to but rarely defined. Though the concept of peace is often assumed to be normatively irreproachable, formative in the founding of the discipline, & central to the agendas of liberal states, it has rarely been directly approached as an area of study within IR. This essay endeavors to illustrate how developing accounts of peace helps chart the different theoretical & methodological contributions in IR, & the complex issues that then emerge. These include the pressing problem of how peace efforts become sustainable rather than merely inscribed in international & state-level diplomatic & military frameworks. This also raises issues related to an ontology of peace, culture, development, agency & structure, not just in terms of the representations of the world, & of peace, presented in the discipline, but in terms of the sovereignty of the discipline itself & its implications for everyday life. In an interdisciplinary & pluralist field of study -- as IR has now become -- concepts of peace & their sustainability are among those that are central. This raises the question of what the discipline is for, if not for peace? This paper explores such issues in the context of orthodox & critical IR theory, methods, & ontology, & offers some thoughts about the implications of placing peace at the center of IR. Figures. Adapted from the source document.

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