The rise of China and other great powers raises important questions about the persistence
and stability of the'liberal international order'. This book provides a new perspective on these …

Chinese and Russian foreign policy, in part, reflects both countries' ambitions for higher
status in the international system. This implies a critical question: can accommodating these …

Denied status claims can produce serious interstate conflict and accommodation may thus
be an important means of avoiding conflict with rising and reemerging status seekers such …

This article examines the rigid boundaries in relations between China and Turkey by
applying social identity theory to international relations. It evaluates different networks of …

Current interpretations making sense of China's policy rationale for pursuing the Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI) often highlight explanations rooted in the logic of economic statecraft …

While much attention has been directed on the security and economic implications of
China's rise in the region, research on the normative implications of China's persistent …

In this study we first briefly introduced political psychology of international relations, and
moved to the notion of threat perceptions in political psychology which extends from national …

The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis remains one of the most war-like confrontations between
Beijing and Washington since the 1960s. Existing studies of the crisis, which have …

This thesis proposes that the domestic context is key to understanding status-seeking
among small states. Through the analytical lens of the foreign policy establishment, the …

The US–ROK alliance during the First Korean Nuclear Crisis provides the most likely case of
high alliance cohesion. Curiously, however, instead of dancing to the American tune in their …