Great Power Multilateralism and the Prevention of War: Debating a 21st Century Concert of Powers

ISBN-13: 9780367594350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 268 str.

Harald Muller; Carsten Rauch

Opis

This edited volume investigates the feasibility of a modern day concert of powers as a way for managing the risk of great power conflicts in the 21st century, taking its inspiration from history.

Spis treści

Preface

Part I: Laying the Groundwork

Chapter 1: Introduction: Risks of Great Power Conflict in the 21st Century

Harald Müller, Carsten Rauch and Iris Wurm

Chapter 2: The Concert of Europe and International Security Governance: How did it Operate, What did it Accomplish, What were its Shortcomings, What can we Learn?

Matthias Schulz

Chapter 3: Concerts as a Mode of Ordering in World Politics: An Ideal Type Approach

Adam Humphreys

Part II: Marking the Challenges

Chapter 4: The Dark Side of the European Concert of Powers: Caveats to be Taken into Account for Successfully Managing Peace

Andreas Fahrmeir

Chapter 5: The Dangers of Great Power Connivance

Bertrand Badie

Chapter 6: The Club Practices of Concert Diplomacy. The Paradox and Effects of Selective Cooperation with Global Objectives

Mélanie Albaret and Delphine Lagrange

Chapter 7: The Concert and Existing Organizations and Legal Structures at the Global Level

Stefan Kadelbach

Part III: Tackling Diversity and Exclusion: Common Norms, Justice and Legitimacy

Chapter 8: The Normative Foundations for a New Global Concert in an Age of Western Retrenchment

Kyle Lascurettes and Sara B. Moller

Chapter 9: The Concert of Powers and Competing Government Models

Hans-Joachim Spanger

Chapter 10: Just a Concert or a Just Concert: The Role of Justice and Fairness Considerations

Harald Müller, Daniel Müller and Carsten Rauch

Chapter 11: The Exclusion Problem and the Need for Legitimacy

Konstanze Jüngling and Siddharth Mallavarapu

Chapter 12: Ownership Matters in a 21st Century Concert of Powers

Pang Zhongying and Mao Weizhun

Part IV: Accounting for the Differences: Adapting to 21st Century Circumstances

Chapter 13: Between Informality and Formality: Concert Operations in a Densely Institutionalized World

Kanti Bajpai and Harald Müller

Chapter 14: Concert of Concerts: The Geopolitical Role of Regional Inter-State Organizations

Alexander Nikitin and Oleg Demidov

Chapter 15: Great Power Accommodation, Nuclear Weapons and Concerts of Power

Nicola Leveringhaus and Andrew Hurrell

Conclusion

Chapter 16: Managing Power Transitions with a Concert of Powers

Harald Müller and Carsten Rauch

O autorze

Harald Müller has been Executive Director of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) for twenty years and Professor of International Relations at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He retired in 2016.

Carsten Rauch is a Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany. He received his PhD from Goethe University in 2013.