Is the world destined to suffer endless cycles of conflict and
war? Can rival nations become partners and establish a lasting and
stable peace? "How Enemies Become Friends" provides a bold and
innovative account of how nations escape geopolitical competition
and replace hostility with friendship. Through compelling analysis
and rich historical examples that span the globe and range from the
thirteenth century through the present, foreign policy expert
Charles Kupchan explores how adversaries can transform enmity into
amity--and he exposes prevalent myths about the causes of
peace.
Kupchan contends that diplomatic engagement with rivals, far
from being appeasement, is critical to rapprochement between
adversaries. Diplomacy, not economic interdependence, is the
currency of peace; concessions and strategic accommodation promote
the mutual trust needed to build an international society. The
nature of regimes matters much less than commonly thought:
countries, including the United States, should deal with other
states based on their foreign policy behavior rather than on
whether they are democracies. Kupchan demonstrates that similar
social orders and similar ethnicities, races, or religions help
nations achieve stable peace. He considers many historical
successes and failures, including the onset of friendship between
the United States and Great Britain in the early twentieth century,
the Concert of Europe, which preserved peace after 1815 but
collapsed following revolutions in 1848, and the remarkably close
partnership of the Soviet Union and China in the 1950s, which
descended into open rivalry by the 1960s.
In a world where conflict among nations seems inescapable, "How
Enemies Become Friends" offers critical insights for building
lasting peace.
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