Quest for Status - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quest for Status write by Deborah Welch Larson. This book was released on 2019-02-26. Quest for Status available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A look at how the desire to improve international status affects Russia's and China's foreign policies Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko argue that the desire for world status plays a key role in shaping the foreign policies of China and Russia. Applying social identity theory—the idea that individuals derive part of their identity from larger communities—to nations, they contend that China and Russia have used various modes of emulation, competition, and creativity to gain recognition from other countries and thus validate their respective identities. To make this argument, they analyze numerous cases, including Catherine the Great’s attempts to westernize Russia, China’s identity crises in the nineteenth century, and both countries’ responses to the end of the Cold War. The authors employ a multifaceted method of measuring status, factoring in influence and inclusion in multinational organizations, military clout, and cultural sway, among other considerations. Combined with historical precedent, this socio-psychological approach helps explain current trends in Russian and Chinese foreign policy.
Small State Status Seeking
Small State Status Seeking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Small State Status Seeking write by Benjamin de Carvalho. This book was released on 2014-09-15. Small State Status Seeking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Status-seeking is an important aspect of the foreign policies of a number of small states, but one that has been rarely studied. This book aims to contribute to our understanding not only of status-seeking, by coming at that question from a new angle, that of a small state, but also to our understanding of foreign policy, by discussing the importance of status for foreign policy overall. If status is a hierarchy, then it is important to focus not just on the highest-ranking powers, but also those at lower levels. As the distribution of power is becoming more diffuse, the role of small and medium powers becomes more significant than it was during the Cold war. The book chapters go beyond familiar explications of "soft power" or conflict resolution to highlight new aspects of Norway’s foreign policy, including contributions to national defense, global warming, and management of Arctic resources. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in areas including US Foreign Policy, International Relations and European Politics.
Food and the Status Quest
Food and the Status Quest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Food and the Status Quest write by Polly Wiessner. This book was released on 1996. Food and the Status Quest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together contributions from different disciplines to investigate, from ethological and anthropological perspectives, behaviour that appears to have biological roots such as the tendency to seek status through the medium of food.
Choosing the Right Pond
Choosing the Right Pond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choosing the Right Pond write by Robert H. Frank. This book was released on 1985. Choosing the Right Pond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is money the major factor in shaping the marketplace? Is salary the prime consideration in job satisfaction? Not necessarily, according to Robert Frank. Economists, Frank charges, have refused to treat people as people, and consequently they have painted a distorted picture of the marketplace. Economists have too often neglected fundamental elements of human nature and therefore have failed to ask many obviously important questions and have offered wrong or at best misleading answers to the questions they do ask. This challenging and provocative book offers an alternative to the prevailing view of human beings as economic automatons. Individual desires--notably the quest for status--profoundly affect the marketplace. "Status concerns play dominant roles in many of the most important private transactions and underlie much of the regulatory apparatus we observe in the modern welfare state," Frank writes. The book offers a radical reinterpretation of what private markets can and cannot do and suggests new ways of looking at familiar regulations and social programs. Many of the issues discussed touch directly upon the strongest concerns we feel as human beings struggling to define our roles and affirm our importance in the world around us. About the Author: Robert H. Frank is Associate Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He is the co-author (with Richard Freeman) of The Distributional Consequences of Direct Foreign Investment.
Major Powers and the Quest for Status in International Politics
Major Powers and the Quest for Status in International Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Major Powers and the Quest for Status in International Politics write by T. Volgy. This book was released on 2011-05-11. Major Powers and the Quest for Status in International Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the effects and consequences of major global power and major regional power status attribution on the foreign policies of states striving for such status and the consequences of status differentiation for the international system and the post-Cold War international order.
