Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers
Hardcover
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- $24.95/拢20.00
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- Published (US):
- Dec 22, 2020
- Published (UK):
- Jan 12, 2021
- Pages:
- 280
- Size:
- 6.13 x 9.25 in.
- 7 b/w illus. 4 tables.
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Why has China grown increasingly important in the world arena while lagging behind the United States and its allies across certain sectors? Using the lens of classical Chinese political theory, Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers explains China鈥檚 expanding influence by presenting a moral-realist theory that attributes the rise and fall of great powers to political leadership. Yan Xuetong shows that the stronger a rising state鈥檚 political leadership, the more likely it is to displace a prevailing state in the international system. Yan shows how rising states like China transform the international order by reshaping power distribution and norms, and he considers America鈥檚 relative decline in international stature even as its economy, education system, military, political institutions, and technology hold steady. Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers offers a provocative, alternative perspective on the changing dominance of states.
Awards and Recognition
- Shortlisted for the BISA Susan Strange Best Book Prize, British International Studies Association