This book focuses on the transformation of the global peacebuilding order and develops a new matrix-based approach to analyze this.For three decades, major Western actors shaped the instruments and normative orientations of peacebuilding. That consensus is now gone, and rising and re-emerging powers – China, Japan, and Russia - are advancing distinctive conceptions of peace that diverge from liberal peacebuilding in their approaches to sovereignty, human rights, and governance in conflict-affected societies. This book develops two ideal-typical normative orders in international peacebuilding: statist and pluralist. It uses these to map China’s, Japan’s, and Russia’s respective positions on the core norms of peacebuilding and the broader orders they imply. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in all three countries and in the policy hubs of Geneva and New York, the volume provides a comprehensive account of a shifting normative landscape shaped by great-power competition and contested multilateralism. By comparing three consequential yet different non-Western actors and combining elite interviews, policy documents, and theory-building, this book bridges peace and conflict studies, International Relations and norm research, and foreign policy analysis.This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, security studies and International Relations.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Kazushige Kobayashi
EAN: 9781032875873
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES: 200
WEIGHT: 453 g
HEIGHT: 234 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-12-09
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GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Russia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace
WIDTH: 156 mm
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Book Themes:
Peace studies and conflict resolution, International institutions, Warfare and defence
Kazushige Kobayashi is an Associate Professor at the College and Graduate School of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. He is also a Research Associate at Geneva Graduate Institute’s Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Switzerland.Xinyu Yuan is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), where she leads a research group on United Nations peacekeeping and conflict management.Oliver Jütersonke is a Research Associate at the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) and teaches in the Executive Programme on Development Policies and Practices (DPP).Keith Krause was Professor of International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute from 1994-2025, and is Director of its Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP).