Status, revisionism, and great power strategy : US-China positional competition and the struggle for leadership in Asia-Pacific
Journal: Digital Commons - Lingnan (Lingnan University)
Year: 2017

The dissertation addresses the core IR problem of revisionism and relates it to both the declining superpower and the rising great power, both the United States and China. The dissertation also offers a novel conceptualization of international order in terms of which revisionism is understood. The theoretical innovation of the dissertation modifies established structural realist theories and shifts the explanatory focus from security to status. Since status, defined as social position, is compos