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Informationen zum Autor Rohan Mukherjee is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was previously Assistant Professor at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. He is a former Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the MIT Security Studies Program and non-resident Fellow at the United Nations University in Tokyo. Klappentext "Using original and robust archival evidence, the book examines these dynamics in three cases: the United States and the maritime laws of war in the mid-nineteenth century; Japan and naval arms control in the interwar period; and India and nuclear nonproliferation in the Cold War. This study shows that the future of contemporary international order depends on the ability of international institutions to address the status ambitions of rising powers such as China and India"-- Vorwort An historically-informed account of rising powers and their quest for eminence in the core institutions of international order. Zusammenfassung This historically grounded study analyses how rising powers pursue symbolic equality with great powers through the rules and institutions of international order. It offers important insights into the behavior of contemporary rising powers such as China and India, revealing similarities with the historical rise of the United States and Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Conceptual foundations; 3. Institutional status theory; 4. The United States and the Atlantic system in the 19th century; 5. Japan and the Washington system of the interwar period; 6. India and the international order of the cold war; 7. China and the liberal international order; 8. Conclusion.
