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

Skrevet av

Benjamin de Carvalho

Forsker 1

Halvard Leira

Forskningssjef, Forsker I

Iver B. Neumann

Tidligere ansatt

William C. Wohlforth

Red.

Sammendrag:

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.

Published year: 2018
Full version: Les artikkelen
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210517000560
Language: Engelsk
Pages: 526 - 546
Volume: 44
Booklet: 3
Journal: Review of International Studies