Roundtable - The Handbook on Peaceful Change
About this event
Join Joshua Shifrinson, Anne Clunan and Xiaoyu Pu to discuss the freshly released Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations (Oxford University Press, August 2021). With the rapid rise of China and the relative decline of the United States, the topic of power transition conflicts is back in popular and scholarly attention. The discipline of International Relations offers much on why violent power transition conflicts occur, yet very few substantive treatments exist on why and how peaceful changes happen in world politics. This Handbook is the first comprehensive examination of the subject of peaceful change in International Relations. It contains some 41 chapters, all written by scholars from different theoretical and conceptual backgrounds examining the multi-faceted dimensions of change in world politics and it proposes a prospective research agenda on this important subject matter.
At the roundtable, Joshua Shifrinson, Anne Clunan and Xiaoyu Pu will present their individual contributions to the handbook, respectively on realism, science and technology, and status quest. Jennifer Welsh will chair the roundtable, and T.V. Paul, the lead editor of the Handbook will introduce the broader research project. This will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Joshua Shifrinson is assistant professor of international relations at Boston University. He is the author of Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts (Cornell University Press, 2018).
Anne L. Clunan is associate professor of national security at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, California. She is author of The Social Construction of Russia’s Resurgence: Aspirations, Identity, and Security Interests (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
Xiaoyu Pu is associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order (Stanford University Press, 2019).
Joshua Shfrinson (Boston University), Anne Clunan (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey), Xiaoyu Pu (University of Reno), T.V. Paul (McGill University), and Jennifer Welsh (McGill University).
Meeting will be over Zoom.