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oapen-20.500.12657-253282021-11-10T07:57:47Z When Right Makes Might Stacie, Goddard Political Science Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers, while others are contained and confronted, even at the risk of war? The book proposes that when faced with a new challenger, great powers will attempt to divine its intentions, to determine whether that rising power poses a revolutionary threat to the system, or whether it can be incorporated into the existing international order. In departing from conventional rationalist and realist theories of international relations, the author argues that established powers come to understand a rising power’s intentions by observing how it justifies its behavior through diplomacy and its claims on the way it exerts its power. Diplomatic rhetoric, therefore, plays a critical role in the formation of grand strategy. Legitimacy is not marginal to international relations; it is essential to the practice of power politics. 2019-03-29 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:37 2020-04-01T10:34:27Z 2020-04-01T10:34:27Z 2018-12-15 book 1004771 OCN: 1100542926 9781501730313;9781501730320 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25328 eng application/pdf n/a 1004771.pdf Cornell University Press 103125 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781501730313;9781501730320 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Ithaca, NY 103125 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers, while others are contained and confronted, even at the risk of war? The book proposes that when faced with a new challenger, great powers will attempt to divine its intentions, to determine whether that rising power poses a revolutionary threat to the system, or whether it can be incorporated into the existing international order. In departing from conventional rationalist and realist theories of international relations, the author argues that established powers come to understand a rising power’s intentions by observing how it justifies its behavior through diplomacy and its claims on the way it exerts its power. Diplomatic rhetoric, therefore, plays a critical role in the formation of grand strategy. Legitimacy is not marginal to international relations; it is essential to the practice of power politics.
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