Regime Change

Rein Müllerson is the President of Tallinn University Law School. 1994-2009 - Professor of International Law at King’s College, London. 2004 - 2005 the UN Regional Adviser for Central Asia. In 1992-94 -Visiting Centennial Professor of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Since 1995 - a Member of the Institut de Droit International.

• IntroductionChapter 1 – From an African village to a global village1. Ex Uno Plures in the evolution of humankind2. Is E Pluribus Unum replacing Ex Uno Plures?3. Homogenisation of the world and heterogenisation of individual societies4. ‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat’?Chapter 2 – Whither goest thou, the world? 1. Universal history and historical determinism2. Current regime changes: socioeconomic and political problems3. Problems of liberal democracy and democratic capitalism4. Limits of social democratic choice in a globalised world5. Any viable alternatives?Chapter 3 – On the futility and danger of external attempts to ‘democratise’ China1. China’s rise and the changing balance of power2. Modernising China – a democratic China?3. A small diversion to illustrate the point: the Kyrgyz tragedy of 20104. Back to China: reforms, not revolution5. The world’s reaction to China’s rise6. From Westernisation to Sinification?Chapter 4 – Regime changes in Russia: Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin1. Understanding Russia or believing in Russia2. Collapse of the USSR and the emergence of Yeltsin’s Russia3. On Putin’s authoritarianism4. Russia and its close neighbours5. Russia – a part of Europe?Chapter 5 – Democratic peace theories and regime change1. Theory and politics of democratic peace2. Problems with democratic peace theories3. Immanuel Kant and the XXI century world4. On the war-proneness of some democratising statesChapter 6 – Humanitarian intervention, civil wars and regime change1. Use of force and humanitarian concerns in ‘modern’ and ‘post-modern’ international societies2. The Kosovo case revisited3. Recognition of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia4. The Libya case5. The Syria tragedy6. Humanitarian intervention and regime change: some generalisations7. From humanitarian intervention to R2P or ‘old wine in new bottles’?8. Intervention in civil wars or internal disturbances and regime change 9. Determinants of success: efforts of interveners or characteristics of the target society?Conclusions, index.