Some states define their interests more broadly than others, looking beyond their immediate security and mobilizing their national wealth in pursuit of more ambitious goals. The most successful of these states come to be seen by others as major powers. Though major powers and states aspiring to attain this status are very important in world politics, relatively little explicit attention has been paid to the question of why some states expand their foreign policy ambi-tions, adopting what can be termed a major-power foreign policy. This article evaluates three explanations for this policy choice. Some international relations theory claims that potential power is itself a sufficient motivation for the adoption of major-power foreign policy. O...
This Chapter studies continuity and innovation in the geopolitics of America in projecting power bey...
For a long time, the question of the nature of power has been subject to debate between the various ...
This article provides a conceptual and empirical review of power analysis in International Relations...
This article attempts to answer the question of why major powers engage in more active foreign polic...
When and how do minor power states decide to intervene in external conflicts? When minor power stat...
Why do some economically powerful states build and project military force while others do not? This ...
Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers, while others are contained and confron...
This study investigates the relationship between international power shifts and middle power behavio...
This paper attempts to answer the question of why major powers engage in more active foreign policy ...
China's growing economic and military power does not go unnoticed in the international arena. United...
This project is an evaluation of the role major power managerial coordination played in the transfor...
The author tests a set of hypotheses about the conditions under which major powers intervene with mi...
The purpose of this paper was to examine if UN (United Nations) peacekeeping operations an be used a...
The new type of major power relations is a strategic concept that is used by China to signal its des...
textWhy do some shifts in power between states pass off peacefully while others result in conflict? ...
This Chapter studies continuity and innovation in the geopolitics of America in projecting power bey...
For a long time, the question of the nature of power has been subject to debate between the various ...
This article provides a conceptual and empirical review of power analysis in International Relations...
This article attempts to answer the question of why major powers engage in more active foreign polic...
When and how do minor power states decide to intervene in external conflicts? When minor power stat...
Why do some economically powerful states build and project military force while others do not? This ...
Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers, while others are contained and confron...
This study investigates the relationship between international power shifts and middle power behavio...
This paper attempts to answer the question of why major powers engage in more active foreign policy ...
China's growing economic and military power does not go unnoticed in the international arena. United...
This project is an evaluation of the role major power managerial coordination played in the transfor...
The author tests a set of hypotheses about the conditions under which major powers intervene with mi...
The purpose of this paper was to examine if UN (United Nations) peacekeeping operations an be used a...
The new type of major power relations is a strategic concept that is used by China to signal its des...
textWhy do some shifts in power between states pass off peacefully while others result in conflict? ...
This Chapter studies continuity and innovation in the geopolitics of America in projecting power bey...
For a long time, the question of the nature of power has been subject to debate between the various ...
This article provides a conceptual and empirical review of power analysis in International Relations...