Power Transition in the Anarchical Society

This 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.

Tonny Brems Knudsen is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Cornelia Navari is Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham and Emeritus Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Auteur

Tonny Brems Knudsen is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Cornelia Navari is Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the University of Buckingham and Emeritus Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Contenu

1 Introduction: An Institutional Approach to the New World Order The Editors PART I: THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS 2. Theories of the power transition Tonny Brems Knudsen 3. Power as a Social Role Cornelia Navari PART II: POWERS 4. The End of Anglo-America? Barry Buzan and Mick Cox 5 Russia: Old Approaches to New Circumstances? Mette Skak 6. China, Power Transition, and the Resilience of Pluralist International Society: Beyond Liberalism and Realism Yongjin Zhang 7. Power Transition as a Challenge to Normative Power Europe Thomas Diez Part III: RULES 8. Power Transition and the Evolution of International Law: Making and Breaking the Rules Dennis R. Schmidt 9. Liberalism and Democracy in a New World Order - Cornelia Navari 10. Humanitarian Intervention Peter Viggo Jakobsen and Tonny Brems Knudsen Part IV: INSTITUTIONS 11. Power Transition and the Economic Order: How much change? Eero Palmujoki 12. Rising Powers and a New Culture of Diplomacy Jamie Gaskarth 13. The US, the OAS and the End of the Monroe Doctrine? Nicolas Terradas 14. China and a New Order in the Arctic Sanna Kopra