The challenges inherent in managing states growing in power and influence are perennial concerns for both theorists and practitioners. Much of the recent literature on rising powers has focused, however, more on the prospects for military conflict between established and emerging states during so-called power transitions. This book takes a welcome step back from these arguments about the causes of war, in order to take a fresh look at the management of what used to be called, in the 1930s, ‘peaceful change’.