Great Power Conduct and Credibility in World Politics

• Main Author: Smolnikov, Sergey (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: International relations.; Security, International.; Diplomacy.; United States-Politics and government.; Russia-Politics and government.; International Relations Theory.; International Security Studies.; Foreign Policy.; US Politics.; Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.

This book seeks to answer one main question: what is the core concern of great powers that streamlines their behavior in the contemporary system of international relations? Building on the examples of the United States, China, Russia, France, and Britain, it tracks both consistency and fluctuations...