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.
Author(s): Tonny Brems Knudsen, Cornelia Navari
Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 366
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Power Transition and Institutional Change: Theorizing the New World Order
The Context of the Argument
Contesting Theories
The Foundational Argument
Theoretical Requirements of the Power Shift
The Structure of the Present Volume
The New World Order
The Balance of Power
Great Power Management
Sovereignty, Humanitarian Intervention and Democracy
International Law, Diplomacy and Trade
War
Pluralism, Solidarism and Regional Ownership
References
Part I Theoretical Investigations
2 Power Transition and World Order: Three Rival Theories and the Dynamics of Change
Realism on Power Transition: From Great Power War to Status and Bounded Orders
Liberalism on Power Transition: From Hegemonic Breakdown to Liberal Inclusion
The English School on Power Transition: From Rejection of Hierarchy to Fundamental Institutional Change
Power Transition and World Order: The Dynamics of Change
Power Transition and the Global South: The Direction of Change
Relating the Explanatory Domains: An Integrated Approach to Power Transition
References
3 International Society and Power as a Social Role
Role Theory
Application to States
Roles in the Society of States
Role Attributions
Great Power
Hegemony
Middle Power
Regional Power
Operationalising Roles
Games States Play
Conclusion
References
Part II Powers
4 The End of Anglo-America?
Anglo-America as the ‘Core of the Core’
The Erosion of Moral Authority to Lead
Outlook
References
5 Russia: Power Transition, Revisionism and Great Power Management
The Context of Twentieth-Century Power Transitions: The Russian Trauma
Russian Great Power Status in Terms of Fundamental Institutions and the UNSC
Russian Great Power Agency in International Organizations—and Notably Beyond
International Organizations Organizing and Feeding Fundamental Institutions: Russia in the Council of Europe
Conclusion
References
6 China, Power Transition, and the Resilience of Pluralist International Society: Beyond Realism and Liberalism
China and Power Transition: On-Going Debates and Their Discontents
China Rising in a World of Liberal Hubris
Rising China and the Resilience of Pluralist International Society
Towards a World Safe for Diversity
References
7 Power Transition as a Challenge to Normative Power Europe
The European Union in a Contested Liberal Order
Solidarisation: The EU as a Normative Power
The EC in the Cold War: Civilian Power
The EU in a Liberal Moment: Normative Power
Challenge: The Causes of Transition
Contestations
Recontextualisations
Pluralisation: EU Geopolitics
Reconceptualisation: Normative Power in a Pluralist World
References
Part III Fundamental Institutions
8 Global Power Shifts and International Law
Law and the Constitution of International Society
Constraining Rising Powers: Possibilities and Limits in a Legalised World
Enabling Rising Powers: The Constitutive Power of International Law
Law, Fragmentation, and the Regionalisation of International Society
Conclusion
References
9 Culture, Diplomacy and Power Transition
Defining Culture
Culture and Society
The Coherence of Culture as an Analytical Concept
How Purposive Is Cultural Expression?
How Far Are Institutions Culturally Dependent?
The Self
Styles of Interaction
Values
Goals
Conclusion
References
10 Liberalism, Democracy and Power Shift
The Liberal Moment
Fractures in the Liberal Core
Regions Against the Core
China as a “Norm Entrepreneur”
Responsibility to Protect, Human Rights and the Global South
A Community of Democracies?
From a “Standard of Civilization” to a Universal Standard
A New Set of Norms
References
11 Humanitarian Intervention and Great Power Management in a Post-hegemonic World Order
Great Power Management and the Role of Regional Organizations
Libya
Cote d’Ivoire
Syria
Mali
Humanitarian Intervention After Hegemony: Dynamics and Practices
Conclusions: Intervention, Great Power Management and International Organization
References
Part IV Organizations and Regimes
12 Power Transition and the Economic Order: How Much Change?
Power Transition and Trade Arrangements in the Asia–Pacific Area
PT, Trade, and International Society in the Asia–Pacific Area
The Establishment of the WTO, the Role of ASEAN Countries, and Power Shift
The WTO Rules, Trade Disputes, and East Asian Countries
The ASEAN Regional Trade Arrangements: Changing Trade Rules?
Conclusion
References
13 China and a New Order in the Arctic
The Making of the Arctic as a Region
The Challenge of China
Future of the Arctic Region
Conclusion
References
14 Power Transition, Rising China, and the Regime for Outer Space in a US-Hegemonic Space Order
The Emergence of the Regime for Outer Space
The Institutional and Normative Aspects of the Regime for Space
Militarisation, Democratisation, Complex Governance and the China Challenge: Space Order in Flux
The Growing Militarisation of Space
Commercialisation and Democratisation
Multilateral Initiatives
China’s Rise as a ‘Space Great Power’
In Lieu of a Conclusion: Is There a Power Transition in Space?
References
Index
