Foreign aid and soft power: Great power competition in Africa in the early twenty-first century

RA Blair, R Marty, P Roessler - British Journal of Political Science, 2022 - cambridge.org
Is foreign aid an effective instrument of soft power? Does it generate affinity for donor
countries and the values they espouse? This article answers these questions in the context …

The status of status in world politics

PK MacDonald, JM Parent - World Politics, 2021 - cambridge.org
What is status? How does it work? What effects does it tend to have? A new wave of
scholarship on status in international relations has converged on a central definition of …

It pays to be generous: How cooptation transforms power rivalries

A Kruck, B Zangl - Contemporary Security Policy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In some cases, hegemonic powers manage to turn dissatisfied (former) rivals into satisfied
partners by means of cooptation. Yet, in other cases, similar cooptation attempts result in …

[图书][B] Military alliances in the twenty-first century

A Lanoszka - 2022 - books.google.com
Alliance politics is a regular headline grabber. When a possible military crisis involving
Russia, North Korea, or China rears its head, leaders and citizens alike raise concerns over …

The Peril of Peaking Powers: Economic Slowdowns and Implications for China's Next Decade

M Beckley - International Security, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
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 …

How Much Risk Should the United States Run in the South China Sea?

MT Fravel, CL Glaser - International Security, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
How strenuously, and at what risk, should the United States resist China's efforts to dominate
the South China Sea? An identification of three options along a continuum—from increased …

[图书][B] Contesting revisionism: China, the United States, and the transformation of international order

S Chan, H Feng, K He, W Hu - 2021 - books.google.com
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 …

Promises under pressure: Statements of reassurance in US alliances

B Blankenship - International Studies Quarterly, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The United States frequently reassures allies of its protection by stationing troops
abroad, visiting allied countries, and making public statements. Yet the causes of …

Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA): causal generalization in case study and multimethod research

G Goertz, S Haggard - Perspectives on Politics, 2023 - cambridge.org
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 …

Engagement on the defensive: From the mismatched grand bargain to the emerging US–China rivalry

S Zhao - Journal of Contemporary China, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Facing powerful challenges from both China and the US, the long-standing engagement
policy is on the defensive. Focusing on advancing American economic and security interests …