While India's prospects as a rising power and its material position in the international system
have received significant attention, little scholarly work exists on India's status in …

This paper proposes to understand diplomacy as a form of impression management.
Drawing on Erving Goffman's dramaturgy, I show how diplomats seek to repair sudden …

The challenge of 'emerging'countries in the 21st century has been conducted in a much
more peaceful manner than in past eras when power transitions were most commonly …

States in the same region are bound together by the ways in which the world imagines them
as a collective. One distinguishing feature of post-Cold War regionalism is its outward …

The aim of the article is to analyse the way the RIC (Russia, India and China) states
understand resilience in the world order. In doing so, the article compares their interpretation …

Abstract The Sino-American relationship is arguably the most important bilateral relationship
in the world. Whether this relationship remains peaceful or becomes conflictual will have far …

Drawing on the rigorous reading of Social Identity Theory (SIT), this paper reconstructs the
ideational sources of Kazakhstan's status seeking by identifying the Kazakhstani perception …

This study offers a constructivist explanation to the (non) proliferation puzzle. The question
'why do states develop nuclear weapons?'has been researched extensively in the IR …

One distinguishing feature of the “new” regionalism is its outward orientation–the increased
importance of the external dimension of regional cooperation. It makes sense, then, that …

This chapter compares credibility with reputation, prestige, and resolve, and demonstrates
why these notions are not interchangeable. Smolnikov defines credibility as authenticity of …