Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking

作者：W. Wohlforth, Benjamin de Carvalho, Halvard Leira, I. Neumann · 发表于：Review of International Studies · 年份：2017 · DOI：10.1017/s0260210517000560 · 被引用次数：152 · 研究领域：Sociology

Abstract 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.