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Scientific article

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Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking

Written by

Benjamin de Carvalho
Research Professor
Halvard Leira
Research Director, Research Professor
Iver B. Neumann
Former employee
William C. Wohlforth

Ed.

Summary:

We develop scholarship on status in international politics by focusing on the social dimension of small and middle power status politics. This vantage opens a new window on the widely-discussed strategies social actors may use to maintain and enhance their status, showing how social creativity, mobility, and competition can all be system-supporting under some conditions. We extract lessons for other thorny issues in status research, notably questions concerning when, if ever, status is a good in itself; whether it must be a positional good; and how states measure it.

Themes

  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Historical IR

Written by

Benjamin de Carvalho
Research Professor
Halvard Leira
Research Director, Research Professor
Iver B. Neumann
Former employee
William C. Wohlforth

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