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Hugh Miall draws upon conflict theory, case studies of averted conflict and a survey of the preventors of war since 1945 to explore how some conflict can be avoided at times of great social or political change. He also looks ahead to discuss the prevention of emerging global conflicts, focusing on climate change

With the rapid rise of China and the relative decline of the United States, the topic of power transition conflicts is back in popular and scholarly attention. The discipline of International Relations offers much on why violent power transition conflicts occur, yet very few substantive treatments exist on why and how peaceful changes happen in world politics. This Handbook is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject of peaceful change in International Relations. It contains some 41 chapters, all written by scholars from different theoretical and conceptual backgrounds examining the multi-faceted dimensions of this subject. In the first part, key conceptual and definitional clarifications are offered and in the second part, papers address the historical origins of peaceful change as an International Relations subject matter during the Inter-War, Cold War, and Post-Cold War eras. In the third part, each of the IR theoretical traditions and paradigms in particular Realism, liberalism, constructivism and critical perspectives and their distinct views on peaceful change are analyzed. In the fourth part papers tackle the key material, ideational and social sources of change. In the fifth part, the papers explore selected great and middle powers and their foreign policy contributions to peaceful change, realizing that many of these states have violent past or tend not to pursue peaceful policies consistently. In part six, the contributors evaluate the peaceful change that occurred in the world's key regions. In the final part, the editors address prospective research agenda and trajectories on this important subject matter.

Human nature and its potential for war and peace / Marek J. Celinski, Andrzej R. Celinski and Kathryn M. Gow -- War, peace, and conflict resolution in the classical world / Jaime A. González-Ocaña -- Ethnic identity, resources, control and supremacy : a brief history of early South African conflicts / Jacques J. Gouws -- Jihad : peaceful definitions and applications / Norman C. Rothman -- Fear and loathing : tribalism in the age of the Internet / Dipak K. Gupta -- The war on drugs : a struggle for the human soul / Andrzej R. Celinski -- Eritrea : a failed state and victim of sellout diplomacy / Tseggai Isaac -- Shattered hopes : the disintegration of South Africa's peaceful transition / Jacques J. Gouws -- Colombia in trauma : a conflict and post-conflict scenario / Saúl M. Rodríguez and Fabio Sánchez -- The Central European experience of war and peace : the nonviolent Czech case / Martina Klicperova-Baker -- The European Union : a case study in peace / Stephen T. Satkiewicz -- Mutual assured destruction as a strategy for peace / João José Brandão Ferreira -- Conflict resolution and peace building : cultural barriers and facilitators / Harsheeta Razora -- Resolution of international and civil war conflicts by diplomatic and military means / Harkirat Singh -- Ideological and policy alternatives to the resolution of Africa's perpetual crisis : is there a worthy policy or ideological alternative? / Tseggai Isaac -- Coping with violence and adversity : general typology and concrete illustrations on Czech case / Martina Klicperova-Baker -- Orientations toward achievable world peace / Frank J. Lucatelli and Nancy Ann Hayes -- Building peace in times of conflict : examining military psychology through Gandhi's lens / Swati Mukherjee -- Consciousness : the bridge between war and peace / Sandeep Gupta and Anand Shankar -- Polemology : the pursuit for lasting peace / Jacques J. Gouws -- Virtue as a basis for non-violence and creative maladjustment : humanistic and positive psychological solutions to war and violence / Brent Dean Robbins -- An integrated quantum field theory of cosmos, consciousness and algorithmic intelligence to promote peace / Ernest Lawrence Rossi and Kathryn Lane Rossi -- Education for peace and conflict resolution / Diana Vladimirovna Prokofyeva -- Is peace achievable? / Marek J. Celinski, Andrzej R. Celinski and Kathryn M. Gow.

As the so-called liberal international order has come under duress, the problem of 'peaceful change' has reappeared on the agenda of International Relations (IR), mainly in a realist guise drawing upon E.H. Carr and Robert Gilpin's renditions of the problem. Making a conceptual archaeological intervention, this paper recovers long-neglected multidisciplinary debates on 'peaceful change' taking place in the tumultuous interwar period. It concurs that peaceful change is an IR problem par excellence, central to academic debates in the burgeoning interwar discipline, but also a more complex conceptual figure than posterity portrays it. The paper explores the debates between negative and positive conceptions of peaceful change, between political, legal-institutional and communitarian mechanisms of peaceful change, and different policies of peaceful change, particularly its troubled relationship to appeasement. The paper concludes that the interwar debate on peaceful change, while highly embedded in its context, does offer IR an alternative and more aspirational perspective on the problem of power and order transitions.

AbstractAs the so-called liberal international order has come under duress, the problem of 'peaceful change' has reappeared on the agenda of International Relations (IR), mainly in a realist guise drawing upon E.H. Carr and Robert Gilpin's renditions of the problem. Making a conceptual archaeological intervention, this paper recovers long-neglected multidisciplinary debates on 'peaceful change' taking place in the tumultuous interwar period. It concurs that peaceful change is an IR problem par excellence, central to academic debates in the burgeoning interwar discipline, but also a more complex conceptual figure than posterity portrays it. The paper explores the debates between negative and positive conceptions of peaceful change, between political, legal-institutional and communitarian mechanisms of peaceful change, and different policies of peaceful change, particularly its troubled relationship to appeasement. The paper concludes that the interwar debate on peaceful change, while highly embedded in its context, does offer IR an alternative and more aspirational perspective on the problem of power and order transitions.

This work 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.

As the so-called liberal international order has come under duress, the problem of "peaceful change" has reappeared on the agenda of International Relations, mainly in a realist guise drawing upon E.H. Carr and Robert Gilpin's renditions of the problem. Making a conceptual archaeological intervention, this paper recovers long-neglected multidisciplinary debates on "peaceful change" taking place in the tumultuous interwar period. It concurs that peaceful change is an International Relations problem par excellence, central to academic debates in the burgeoning interwar discipline, but also a more complex conceptual figure than posterity portrays it. The paper explores the debates between negative and positive conceptions of peaceful change, between political, legal-institutional and communitarian mechanisms of peaceful change, and different policies of peaceful change, particularly its troubled relationship to appeasement. The paper concludes that the interwar debate on peaceful change, while highly embedded in its context, does offer IR an alternative and more aspirational perspective on the problem of power and order transitions