Essence of Interstate Leadership

Yan Xuetong is Director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University.Fang Yuanyuan is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University.

• 1. Interstate Leadership, Moral Realism, and Its Critiques - Yan Xuetong and Fang Yuanyuan2. IR Moral Realism as A Universal Theory - Yan Xuetong3. Moral Realism as An Alternative Approach to Agent-Structure Problem - Fang Yuanyuan4. Prospects, Promise, and Limitations of Moral Realism - Wang Qingxin5. Ideal Morality and Realist Interest of Moral Realism - Kai He 6. The Conception of Morality in Moral Realism - Feng Zhang 7. Moral Realism and Hegemonic Transition - Athanasios Platias and Vasilis Trigkas 8. Innovation of Moral Realism and Dialogue with It - Mario Telò9. Moral Realism and Sino-American Relations - Deborah Welch Larson10. Moral Realism on Interstate Leadership in Response to Critics - Yan XuetongAppendix 1: Pen Discussion Between Rajesh Rajagopalan and Yan XuetongAppendix 2: “Chinese School” as An Inappropriate Title

“In this era of US–China rivalry, an important reminder that leadership – of both rising and ruling powers – can be the difference between coexistence and codestruction.” Graham Allison, Harvard Kennedy School