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Palgrave MacMillan Building Sustainable Couples in International Relations A Strategy Towards Peaceful Cooperation 2014 Edition by B. Vassort-Rousset
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. Table of contents :- 1. Critical Components of Peaceful Couples in I.R.; Brigitte Vassort-Rousset PART I: CONDITIONS FOR ACCOMMODATION AND INSTITUTIONALISED RECIPROCAL RESTRAINT 2. Couples and Trust-building in International Society; Anna Caffarena 3. The Equivocal Couple in Multilateralism: Dyads at the UN; Melanie Albaret and Delphine Placidi-Frot 4. Good Fences for Good Neighbours? States, Couples, and Walls; Elisabeth Vallet and Charles-Philippe David 5. Post-colonial Britain and its Former Colonies in the EU; Elise Feron PART II: GRASSROOTS AND INTERMEDIATE LEVEL INTEGRATION AND INTEREST-RELATED IDENTITY CHANGE 6. The French-German Couple: Elites' Affair or Peoples' Friendship?; Jean-Jacques Roche 7. Diplomacy Decentralised: Latin American Substate Couples; Noe Cornago 8. North Kivu: Buffer, Battleground, Sanctuary; Morten Boas PART III: ATTEMPTING TO AVOID DIVORCE FOR LACK OF CULTURAL COMMONALITY 9. Enduring China-India Divorce: Multi-layered Causes; Yves-Heng Lim 10. The Binary Indo-Pakistani Civilisational Subtext; Jayati Srivastava 11. The Divan Orchestra: Mutual Middle-range Transformation; Frederic Ramel Conclusion 12. Towards International Couples' Peaceful Identity Change through Middle-range Cooperation; Brigitte Vassort-Rousset