Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers

Argues that rising powers challenge international order when their status ambitions seem to be unjustly and permanently blocked.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Revisionism, order, and rising powers; 2. Status, foreign policy, and revisionism; 3. 'World power' and revisionism in Wilhelmine Germany; 4. Japan joins the 'community of the damned'; 5. A peace 'incompatible with our honor' - status and the genesis of revisionism in interwar Germany; 6. Status and the Anglo-American power transition; 7. Status, order, and the rise of China; 8. Conclusion; 9. References.

About the author

Steven Ward is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, New York. He holds an M.A. in Security Studies and a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University, Washington, DC, where he won the Harold N. Glassman Award.

Summary

The rise of new powers raises important questions about the persistence and stability of the 'liberal international order'. This book provides a novel theory of revisionist challenges, arguing that rising powers sometimes feel that they face 'status immobility' which pushes them to lash out against the status quo.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Ward, Steven (Cornell University Ward, Ward Steven
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107182363
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18236-3
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Political science & theory, Constitution: government & the state