Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

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

Résumé
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.

Contenu

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.