Status in World Politics

T. V. Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. Deborah Welch Larson is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College.

• Part I. Introduction: 1. Status and world order Deborah Welch Larson, T. V. Paul and William C. Wohlforth; Part II. Admission into the Great-Power Club: 2. Managing rising powers: the role of status concerns Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko; 3. Status considerations in international politics and the rise of regional powers Thomas J. Volgy, Renato Corbetta, J. Patrick Rhamey, Jr, Ryan G. Baird and Keith A. Grant; 4. Status is cultural: Durkheimian Poles and Weberian Russians seek great-power status Iver B. Neumann; Part III. Status Signaling: 5. Status dilemmas and interstate conflict William C. Wohlforth; 6. Status signaling, multiple audiences, and China's blue-water naval ambition Xiaoyu Pu and Randall L. Schweller; Part IV. International Institutions and Status: 7. Status accommodation through institutional means: India's rise and the global order T. V. Paul and Mahesh Shankar; 8. Setting status in stone: the negotiation of international institutional privileges Vincent Pouliot; Part V. Status, Authority, and Structure: 9. Status conflict, hierarchies, and interpretation dilemmas William R. Thompson; 10. Status, authority, and the end of the American century David A. Lake; Part VI. Conclusions: 11. Why status matters in world politics Anne L. Clunan.

'In World War I status disagreements contributed to the war. Once again in the twenty-first century status is becoming an important issue. Definitively and thoroughly examining status from a number of angles, this book is an indispensable source on the subject.' Charles Doran, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University