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.

• Part I: Introduction1. The Study of Peaceful Change in World Politics T. V. Paul Part II: Historical Perspectives2. Peaceful Change: The Inter-War Era and the Disciplinary ContextTorbjørn L. Knutsen3. Peaceful Change after the World WarsPeter Marcus Kristensen 4. Peaceful Change: The Post-Cold War EvolutionJeffrey W. Taliaferro Part III: Theoretical Perspectives5. Realism and Peaceful Change: A Structural and Neoclassical Realist First-CutJoshua Shifrinson6. Liberalism and Peaceful ChangeAlexandra Gheciu 7. International Institutions and Peaceful ChangeFrédéric Mérand and Vincent Pouliot8. Economic Interdependence, Globalization, and Peaceful ChangeJohn Ravenhill9. Constructivism and Peaceful ChangeErna Burai and Stephanie C. Hofmann 10. Peaceful Change in English School Theory: Great Power Management and Regional OrderCornelia Navari11. Critical Theories and Change in International RelationsAnnette Freyberg-Inan12. Gender and Peaceful ChangeKarin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond13. Civilization, Religion, and Peaceful and Non-Peaceful Change in AsiaVictoria Tin-bor Hui14. Evolutionary Theorization of Peaceful International ChangesShiping Tang Part IV: The Sources of Change15. International Law and Peaceful ChangeJennifer M. Welsh 16. Nuclear Weapons and Peaceful ChangeMichal Smetana17. The Political Economy of Peaceful ChangeLars S. Skålnes18. Climate Change, Collective Action, and Peaceful ChangeAshok Swain 19. Democracy, Global Governance, and Peaceful ChangeThomas Davies 20. Status Quest and Peaceful ChangeXiaoyu Pu 21. Science, Technology, and Peaceful Change in World PoliticsAnne L. Clunan22. Transnational Social Movements and Peaceful ChangeAlejandro Milcíades Peña Part V: Great Powers, Rising Powers, and Peaceful Change23. Peaceful Change in US Foreign PolicyDeborah Welch Larson 24. China's Peaceful Rise: From Narrative to PracticeKai He and Feng Liu 25. Russia and Peaceful Change: From Gorbachev to PutinAndrej Krickovic26. Germany and Peaceful ChangeKlaus Brummer 27. Japan and Peaceful Change in the International System: The Persistent Peace Nation Thomas U. Berger28. India and Peaceful ChangeManjeet S. Pardesi29. South Africa and the Idea of Peaceful ChangePeter Vale30. Indonesia's Contributions to Peaceful Change in International AffairsDewi Fortuna Anwar Part VI: Regional Perspectives 31. Peaceful Change in Western Europe: From Balance of Power to Political Community? Anders Wivel32. Origins and Evolution of the North American Stable PeaceDavid G. Haglund 33. Latin America's Evolving Contribution to Peaceful Change in the International System: A Stony RoadHarold A. Trinkunas34. Peaceful Change in AfricaMarkus Kornprobst35. Peaceful Change in Southeast Asia: The Historical and Institutional BasesRalf Emmers and Mely Caballero-Anthony36. South Asia: Limited Progress toward Peaceful ChangeRajesh Basrur and Kate Sullivan de Estrada37. Peaceful Change in Northeast Asia: Maintaining the "Minimal Peace" Bhubhindar Singh38. The Middle East and Peaceful ChangeArie M. Kacowicz and Galia Press-Barnathan39. Explaining Peaceful Change in Central and Eastern EuropeAlexander Tabachnik and Benjamin Miller40. Central Asia: A Decolonial Perspective on Peaceful ChangeTimur Dadabaev and John Heathershaw Part VII: Conclusions41. A Research Agenda for the Study of Peaceful Change in World PoliticsDeborah Welch Larson, T. V. Paul, Harold A. Trinkunas, Anders Wivel, and Ralf Emmers

Its theoretical ambition, conceptual depth, and historical breadth make this volume a seminal contribution to the study of peaceful change. This book provides profound insight to scholars and practitioners alike into the potential for peaceful international change – but also illuminates the formidable obstacles that stand in its way. Peaceful change has long been understudied; this volume goes a long way toward filling the gap.