This handbook examines one of the critical questions of international politics going back to Immanuel Kant: how to explain and promote peaceful change in the relations between states. This issue was a major concern of international relations scholars in the 1930s, but since the Cold War, it has been sidelined by other concerns. The editors have mobilized a group of international authors to explore the issue. Forty-one outstanding chapters address the problem from diverse theoretical, historical, and regional perspectives. This handbook should help restore the problem of peaceful change to the center of the discipline.
T. V. Paul is the James McGill Professor of International Relations at McGill University.
Deborah Welch Larson is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Harold A. Trinkunas is Deputy Director and Senior Research Scholar of the Centre for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.
Anders Wivel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen.
Ralf Emmers is Professor and Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.