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ISBN 10: 0691190089
ISBN 13: 978-0691190082
Author: Xuetong Yan
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 order
While work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of their rise. The upward trajectory of China is a particularly puzzling case. How has it grown increasingly important in the world arena while lagging behind the United States and its allies across certain sectors? 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. Yan Xuetong shows that the stronger a rising state’s political leadership, the more likely it is to displace a prevailing state in the international system.
Yan defines political leadership through the lens of morality, specifically the ability of a government to fulfill its domestic responsibility and maintain international strategic credibility. Examining leadership at the personal, national, and international levels, Yan shows how rising states like China transform the international order by reshaping power distribution and norms. Yan also considers the reasons for America’s diminishing international stature even as its economy, education system, military, political institutions, and technology hold steady. The polarization of China and the United States will not result in another Cold War scenario, but their mutual distrust will ultimately drive the world center from Europe to East Asia.
Using the lens of classical Chinese political theory, Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers offers a provocative, alternative perspective on the changing dominance of nations on the global stage.
Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers 1st Table of contents:
1 Morality, Power, and Authority
The Role of Morality in Realism Theory
Levels and Components of Morality
Differences between Power, Capability, and Authority
Influence of Morality and Strategic Credibility
Summary
2 Leadership and Strategic Preferences
The Role and Types of Leadership
Leaderships of a Rising State and Strategic Preferences
Strategic Credibility and International Leadership
The Principle of Humane Authority
Summary
3 Corollaries of International Change
State Leadership and Change of Power Configuration
State Capability, Leadership, and Strategy Preference
International Leadership and Norm Change
Changes in International Order and Systems
Summary
4 Power Redistribution and World Center
Leadership and Bipolarization
Bipolar Configuration Not Equal to Cold War
Conditions for Forming a World Center
Summary
5 Leadership and International Norms
Early Studies of Leadership and Norm Change
Types of Leadership and Types of Norms
Change in the Type of International Norms
Summary
6 International Mainstream Values
Value Challenge and Competition
Devaluation of Strategic Credibility
Beyond Liberalism
Summary
7 Transformation of the International System
Component Change versus System Change
Conditions for System Transformation
Political Leadership and System Transformation
Summary
8 Historical Cases of System Transformation
Ancient Chinese Cases
Cases in Modern History
Summary
9 Conclusion
Theory Summarization
A New Bipolar World
Appendix: Ancient Chinese Figures
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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