Building Sustainable Couples in International Relations A Strategy Towards Peaceful Cooperation

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.

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; Mélanie 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 Féron 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; Frédéric Ramel Conclusion 12. Towards International Couples' Peaceful Identity Change through Middle-range Cooperation; 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