ABSTRACT
Bringing about changes peacefully in the European order is undoubtedly one of the most challenging tasks of the present work for security in Europe. Scholarly arguments stress repeatedly that, in the history of international relations, wars are the major agents of change. Scholarly models on how peaceful change could be promoted date back to the 1930s. The international order then existing was rapidly heading towards a collapse and the academic community wished to develop ideas and concrete models in the interest of preserving peace. The chapter presents an attempt is made to study the emergence of the post-Second World War European order from the point of view of peaceful change. The problem of peaceful change has an intimate relationship with the configuration of the international order which serves as a starting point when evaluating the possibilities of peaceful change.
