Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking
Journal article, Peer reviewed
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2477311Utgivelsesdato
2017Metadata
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10.1017/S0260210517000560Sammendrag
We develop scholarship on status in international politics by focusing on the social dimension of small and middle power status politics. This vantage opens a new window on the widely-discussed strategies social actors may use to maintain and enhance their status, showing how social creativity, mobility, and competition can all be system-supporting under some conditions. We extract lessons for other thorny issues in status research, notably questions concerning when, if ever, status is a good in itself; whether it must be a positional good; and how states measure it.