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Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order Paperback – October 1, 2001

by Charles A. Kupchan (Author), Emanuel Adler (Author), Jean-Marc Coicaud (Author),

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As this new century progresses, America will not be able to sustain the global preponderance it enjoys today. Over time, a unipolar international system will give way to a world of multiple centers of power, and a more diffuse concentration of power could have adverse global consequences. Although scholars disagree about whether bipolar or multipolar systems are more stable, most agree that both are less stable than unipolar systems. Power in Transition addresses the question of how to prepare for the waning of American hegemony and the resultant geopolitical consequences. Can the impending transition to multipolarity be managed peacefully? Is systemic change possible without war? Under what conditions and through what causal mechanisms can power transitions occur peacefully? The authors identify past cases of peaceful transition, seek to understand which variables enable major power shifts to occur without war, and draw lessons on how the international community can best manage the coming transition to multipolarity. The analysis focuses on three core issues: how contenders for primacy come to see one another as benign; how they negotiate a mutually acceptable international order; and how they legitimize that order. The authors also reflect on whether the nature of systemic change is itself changing because of social learning and underlying shifts in the character of the international system. Case studies examined include the Concert of Europe, Anglo-American rapprochement at the end of the nineteenth century, and ASEAN. This volume helps fill a major gap in the literature on peaceful systemic change. It also contributes to efforts within the scholarly and policy communities to establish the means by which peaceful management of coming change in the international system may be achieved.

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Charles A. Kupchan is Senior Fellow and Director of European Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also an Associate Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University. He was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration. Prior to that, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the Policy Planning Staff. Emanuel Adler is Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jean-Marc Coicaud is head of United Nations University's office at the United Nations in New York. Yuen Foong Khong is a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University. From 1998 to 2000, he was acting director and professor, Institute of Defence & Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ United Nations University Press (October 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9280810596
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9280810592
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1570L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.23 x 0.38 x 9.37 inches

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Toward a theory of peaceful power transition

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This book has basically to do with answering two critical questions."Can the impending transition to multipolarity be managed peacefully?" If yes, "under what conditions and through what causal mechanisms can power transitions occur peacefully?" (P.2) The book offers three factors that make peaceful power transition possible. First, benignity or benign images that current hegemon and rising power have vis-à-vis each other. Second, order that these powers negotiate about power transition. Third, legitimacy that rising power will have over upcoming order in the eyes of current hegemon and other world powers. While strategic restraint and mutual accommodation lead to emergence of benign images, similar or shared identities, cultures also result in benignity. Hierarchy of prestige, rules about trade and about use of force, procedures for managing territorial change, and mutual recognition of spheres of influence are basic elements of order that should be negotiated between current hegemon and challenging power. Legitimacy as leading element for socialized instability in international system is mostly dealt with multilateral framework, in which hegemonic power has to do with other states and/or actors in world politics. On the basis of these three fundamental concepts, Power in Transition tests and illustrates its theoretical arguments with three historical cases; rapprochement between the United States and Great Britain in the late 19th century, the Concert of Europe (1815-1848), and ASEAN. In all these historical illustrations benignity, order and legitimacy play significant role though not equally. This work also has a fundamental assumption that power, institutions, identities and ideas altogether significantly matter in peaceful transition of international order. Although the authors have argued that this book is not a definitive study rather it is just brainstorming about peaceful systemic change it is well beyond this modest standing. It deserves close attention by all students of systemic change and international relations.

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