Building Sustainable Couples in International Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Critical Components of Peaceful Couples in International Relations

   1. Introduction: Critical Components of Peaceful Couples in International Relations

      • Brigitte Vassort-Rousset

      Pages 1-19

3. Conditions for Accommodation and Institutionalized Reciprocal Restraint

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Couples and Trust-Building in International Society

      • Anna Caffarena

      Pages 23-43

   3. The Equivocal Couple in Multilateralism: Dyads in the United Nations

      • Mélanie Albaret, Delphine Placidi-Frot

      Pages 44-65

   4. Good Fences for Good Neighbours? States, Couples and Walls

      • Elisabeth Vallet, Charles-Philippe David

      Pages 66-87

   5. Post-colonial Britain and Its Former Colonies in the European Union

      • Elise Féron

      Pages 88-108

4. Grassroots and Intermediate-Level Integration and Interest-Related Identity Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. The French-German Couple: Elites’ Affair or Peoples’ Friendship?

      • Jean-Jacques Roche

      Pages 111-124

   3. Diplomacy Decentralized: Latin American Substate Couples

      • Noe Cornago

      Pages 125-145

   4. North Kivu, Eastern Congo: Buffer, Battleground, Sanctuary

      • Morten Bøås

      Pages 146-164

5. Attempting to Avoid Divorce for Lack of Cultural Commonality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Enduring Divorce: Multilayered Causes of the China-India Rivalry

      • Yves-Heng Lim

      Pages 167-189

   3. India-Pakistan and Civilizational Subtext: Problematizing the Binaries

      • Jayati Srivastava

      Pages 190-208

   4. The Divan Orchestra: Mutual Middle-Range Transformation

      • Frédéric Ramel

      Pages 209-237

   5. Conclusion: Towards Peaceful Identity Change through Middle-Range Cooperation

      • Brigitte Vassort-Rousset

      Pages 238-251

6. Back Matter

   Pages 252-255

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The contributors investigate processes of international conflict transformation and peaceful cooperation. They highlight how critical intermediary-level components have proved more conducive to promoting rapprochement between rival states than interstate diplomatic engagement through incremental identity-change.

• conflict
• desegregation
• Institution
• international relations
• transformation

“Brigitte Vassort-Rousset’s edited volume is a very welcome contribution to scholarship on bilateral relations in international politics. … The volume enriches the literature on bilateral relations both conceptually and empirically. … the considerable added value of this collection primarily comes from the combination of its theoretical ambition to further the study of peaceful bilateral relations in international politics and its rich set of empirical case studies.” (Kai Oppermann, European Review of International Studies, Vol. 3, 2016)

• University of Lyon, France

  Brigitte Vassort-Rousset

Anna Caffarena, University of Turin, Italy Delphine Placidi-Frot, University of Paris Sud-Jean Monnet, France Charles-Philippe David, University of Quebec at Montreal, Quebec Elise Feron, University of Gent, Brussels Campus, Belgium Jean-Jacques Roche, Paris 2-Panthéon Assas University, France Noe Cornago, University of the Basque Country, Spain Morten Boas, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway Yves-Heng Lim, Fu Jen University, Taiwan Jayati Srivastava, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Frédéric Ramel, Sciences Po Paris, France Elisabeth Vallet, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada Mélanie Albaret, University of Auvergne, France

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