Peaceful Change in Western Europe: From Balance of Power to Political Community?
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Peaceful Change in Western Europe : From Balance of Power to Political Community? / Wivel, Anders.
The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations. ed. / T.V. Paul; Deborah Welch Larson; Harold A. Trinkunas; Anders Wivel; Ralf Emmers. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021. p. 569-586.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Peaceful Change in Western Europe
T2 - From Balance of Power to Political Community?
AU - Wivel, Anders
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This chapter traces three different conceptions of peaceful change in Western Europe since 1945 and discusses their implications for understanding peaceful change in Western Europe today. The first is Hobbesian Western Europe. Corresponding to a largely realist understanding, Hobbesians view peaceful change in Western Europe as a by-product of balancing and hegemony in the Cold War. The second is Lockean Western Europe. Corresponding to a largely liberal understanding of peaceful change, the Lockean perspective views peaceful change in the region as the product of liberal democratic states responding rationally to the challenges of international anarchy by institutionalizing the region. The third is Kantian Western Europe. Corresponding to a largely constructivist understanding of peaceful change, Kantians view peaceful change in Europe as the construction of a civil league of nations exercising ‘normative power Europe’ inside and outside the region.
AB - This chapter traces three different conceptions of peaceful change in Western Europe since 1945 and discusses their implications for understanding peaceful change in Western Europe today. The first is Hobbesian Western Europe. Corresponding to a largely realist understanding, Hobbesians view peaceful change in Western Europe as a by-product of balancing and hegemony in the Cold War. The second is Lockean Western Europe. Corresponding to a largely liberal understanding of peaceful change, the Lockean perspective views peaceful change in the region as the product of liberal democratic states responding rationally to the challenges of international anarchy by institutionalizing the region. The third is Kantian Western Europe. Corresponding to a largely constructivist understanding of peaceful change, Kantians view peaceful change in Europe as the construction of a civil league of nations exercising ‘normative power Europe’ inside and outside the region.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Western Europe
KW - Peaceful Change
KW - NATO
KW - EU
KW - Normative Power Europe
KW - Balance of power
UR - http://Oxfordhandbooks.com
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190097356.013.43
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190097356.013.43
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780190097356
SP - 569
EP - 586
BT - The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations
A2 - Paul, T.V.
A2 - Larson, Deborah Welch
A2 - Trinkunas, Harold A.
A2 - Wivel, Anders
A2 - Emmers, Ralf
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
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