Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers Yan XuetongPevná vazba
Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers Yan XuetongPevná vazba A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for…
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Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers Yan XuetongPevná vazba
A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international orderWhile work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of their rise. How has it grown increasingly important in the world arena while lagging behind the United States and its allies across certain sectors? The upward trajectory of China is a particularly puzzling case.
Yan Xuetong shows that the stronger a rising state's political leadership, the more likely it is to Borrowing ideas of political determinism from ancient Chinese philosophers, Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers explains China's expanding influence by presenting a moral-realist theory that attributes the rise and fall of nations to political leadership.