Power is the most important variable in world politics, but scholars and policy analysts
systematically mismeasure it. Most studies evaluate countries' power using broad indicators …

Beckley demonstrates that no country is poised to upend American primacy, not
economically, not militarily, and not technologically.... The evidence he assembles should be …

" At dinner with a group of friends, one asked what I had been doing lately. When I said I was
writing a book on presidents, ethics and foreign policy, she quipped" it must be a short …

When and why might a rising China challenge the power and security of a relatively
declining United States? Conventional wisdom argues that China–like other rising states–is …

Laying the foundations of a theory of 'international social closure'this book examines how
actors compete for a seat at the table in the management of international society and how …

From ancient times to the present, rising powers have taken up arms to reorder the world.
Yet such violent revisionism poses a puzzle: If a rising power is profiting from the existing …

When and why did the United States first contemplate NATO's enlargement into Eastern
Europe? Existing research generally portrays US backing for NATO enlargement as a …

Nuclear Reactions analyzes how nuclear weapons change the calculations states make in
their foreign policies, why they do so, and why nuclear weapons have such different effects …

How can we know a country, such as the United States or China, is revisionist, that is,
whether it intends to upset the international order? What motivates states to act the way they …

We describe an emerging research practice that we call Large-N Qualitative Analysis
(LNQA), outline its core components and codify best practice. LNQA starts with hypothesized …