Thomas J. Volgy - Major Powers and the Quest for Status in International Politics: Global and Regional Perspectives (Evolutionary Processes in World Politics)

Major Powers and the Quest for Status in International Politics

Evolutionary Processes in World Politics

Edited by William R. Thompson, Indiana University

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Major Powers and the Quest for Status in International Politics: Global and Regional Perspectives

Edited by Thomas J. Volgy, Renato Corbetta, Keith A. Grant, and Ryan G. Baird (2011)

Global and Regional Perspectives

Edited by

Thomas J. Volgy, Renato Corbetta,
Keith A. Grant, and Ryan G. Baird

MAJOR POWERS AND THE QUEST FOR STATUS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
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Major powers and the quest for status in international politics / edited by Thomas J. Volgy... [et al.].

p. cm.(Evolutionary processes in world politics)

ISBN 9780230104648 (hardback)

1. Great powers. 2. International relations. 3. World politics21st century. I. Volgy, Thomas J.

JZ1310.M35 2011
327.1dc22

2010049112

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Bertrand Badie is professor of political science and international relations at Sciences Po, Paris, where he is in charge of the PhD program in international relations. He published about twenty books in International Relations and Comparative Politics, including The Imported State, Stanford University Press, 2000 and Le Diplomate et lIntrus, Fayard, 2008. He is one of the general editors of The International Encyclopedia in Political Science (Sage).

Ryan G. Baird received his PhD in political science from the University of Arizona, and is now at the Warfare Analysis Center. He has written extensively on the primacy of a states governance infrastructure, and its relationship with a states regime type and economic outcomes.

Rajesh Basrur is senior fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His recent publications include South Asias Cold War (Routledge, 2008) and Minimum Deterrence and Indias Nuclear Security (Stanford University Press, 2006).

Kirssa Cline, Patrick Rhamey, Alexis Henshaw, Alesia Sedziaka, and Aakriti Tandon are PhD candidates in political science at the School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona. Kirssas current focus is human rights violations in relation to civil conflict and authoritarian regimes. Patricks research interests include domestic-international linkages, regionalism, globalization, conflict, and conflict mediation. Alexis research interests include gender, conflict, and Latin American politics. Alesia specializes in international and comparative politics, with an emphasis on Central European states. Aakritis primary focus is on international political economy.

Renato Corbetta is an assistant professor of political science in the Department of Government at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. His research has been published in Foreign Policy Analysis, Political Research Quarterly, and Conflict Management and Peace Science. His recent work focuses on major power states in international politics, on the expansion of conflict, and on networks in international relations.

Yong Deng is professor of political science at US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. He has written extensively on Asian international relations and Chinese foreign policy. His latest book, titled Chinas Struggle for Status: The Realignment of International Relations was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.

Maria Raquel Freire holds a PhD from the University of Kent. She is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) and assistant professor of international relations at the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra. Her research interests focus on foreign policy, international security, Russia and the post-Soviet space.

Keith A. Grant is an assistant professor of political science at Bucknell University. His research interests focus on issues of systemic complexity in international relations, and configuration of various international networks influencing the behavior of states. His recent work on intergovernmental organizations has appeared in the Journal of Peace Research, as well as in Mapping the New World Order (Volgy et al., 2009).

Monica Herz is an associate professor at the Institute of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She writes on Latin American security and international organizations.

Norichika Kanie is associate professor at the Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Currently he is the vice chair of Working Party on Global and Structural Policies (WPGSP) at OECD, and a UNEP International Environmental Governance Advisory Group member.

Jack S. Levy is Board of Governors professor of political science at Rutgers University, and past president of the International Studies Association (200708) and of the Peace Science Society (200506). His research focuses on the causes of war and on foreign policy decision-making.

William R. Thompson is Rogers Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington and managing editor of International Studies Quarterly. His latest book with Jack Levy is The Causes of War, published by Blackwell/Wiley in 2010.