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TY - CHAP
T1 - Power Transition and World Order
T2 - Three Rival Theories and the Dynamics of Change
AU - Knudsen, Tonny Brems
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The chapter clarifies the different explanatory domains of the main theories of power transition, their recent versions and makes the case for an international society approach to power transition based on the theoretical concept of “fundamental institutional change”. In this perspective, the key question is how power transition is shaped by fundamental institutions (such as sovereignty, diplomacy, international law, great power management and trade) and the other way round, and what this means to international order as a historical quality of international society rather than a function of the distribution of power, hegemonic stability or liberal organization. The key answer is that power transition stimulates stable processes of fundamental institutional change (rather than a break-down of international order), while international organizations are key arenas for the agentic perception and negotiation of such changes (rather than the victims of hegemonic retreat or the end of liberal world order).
AB - The chapter clarifies the different explanatory domains of the main theories of power transition, their recent versions and makes the case for an international society approach to power transition based on the theoretical concept of “fundamental institutional change”. In this perspective, the key question is how power transition is shaped by fundamental institutions (such as sovereignty, diplomacy, international law, great power management and trade) and the other way round, and what this means to international order as a historical quality of international society rather than a function of the distribution of power, hegemonic stability or liberal organization. The key answer is that power transition stimulates stable processes of fundamental institutional change (rather than a break-down of international order), while international organizations are key arenas for the agentic perception and negotiation of such changes (rather than the victims of hegemonic retreat or the end of liberal world order).
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-97711-5_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-97711-5_2
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-030-97710-8
T3 - Palgrave Studies in International Relations
SP - 31
EP - 55
BT - Power Transition in the Anarchical Society
A2 - Knudsen, Tonny Brems
A2 - Navari, Cornelia
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Cham
ER -