Building Sustainable Couples in International Relations

1. Introduction: Critical Components of Peaceful Couples in International Relations
Brigitte Vassort-Rousset

Part I. Conditions for Accommodation and Institutionalized Reciprocal Restraint

2. Couples and Trust-Building in International Society
Anna Caffarena

3. The Equivocal Couple in Multilateralism: Dyads in the United Nations
Mélanie Albaret, Delphine Placidi-Frot

4. Good Fences for Good Neighbours? States, Couples and Walls
Elisabeth Vallet, Charles-Philippe David

5. Post-colonial Britain and Its Former Colonies in the European Union
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 Decentralized: Latin American Substate Couples
Noe Cornago

8. North Kivu, Eastern Congo: Buffer, Battleground, Sanctuary
Morten Bøås

Part III. Attempting to Avoid Divorce for Lack of Cultural Commonality

9. Enduring Divorce: Multilayered Causes of the China-India Rivalry
Yves-Heng Lim

10. India-Pakistan and Civilizational Subtext: Problematizing the Binaries
Jayati Srivastava

11. The Divan Orchestra: Mutual Middle-Range Transformation
Frédéric Ramel

12. Conclusion: Towards Peaceful Identity Change through Middle-Range Cooperation
Brigitte Vassort-Rousset

Keywords: Economics, Economic Policy, Development Studies, International Relations, Political Science, International Organization, International Economics