Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781316633540)

The rise of China and other great powers raises important questions about the persistence and stability of the 'liberal international order'. This book provides a new perspective on these questions by offering a novel theory of revisionist challenges to international order. It argues that rising powers sometimes seem to face the condition of 'status immobility', which activates social psychological and domestic political forces that push them toward lashing out in protest against status quo rules, norms, and institutions. Ward shows that status immobility theory illuminates important but often-overlooked dynamics that contributed to the most significant revisionist challenges in modern history. The book highlights the importance of status in world politics, and further advances a new understanding of this important concept's role in foreign policy. This book will be of interest to researchers in international politics and security, especially those interested in great power politics, status, power transitions, revisionism, and order.

Author: Steven Ward
ISBN-10: 1316633543
ISBN-13: 9781316633540
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2020
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d