Table Of Content“Howdoweknowarisingpowerwhenweseeone,whatdorisingpowers
wantandunderwhatconditionsmighttheybesatisfied?RohanMukherjee’s
Ascending Order tackles these questions and provides compelling answers
that are backed up by solid historical scholarship. The book’s distinctive
contribution lies in its argument that rising powers seek symbolic equality
with the established great powers, and that they look to the institutional
opennessandproceduralfairnessofthecoreinstitutionsoftheinternational
systemtodetermineifthatequalityisachievable.Theemphasisonequality,
openness, and fairness is truly original and it adds a fascinating normative
dimension to the analysis of power transition politics. Mukherjee’s argu-
mentswarranttheattentionofscholarsandpolicymakersgrapplingwiththe
riseofChinaandIndia,andtheimplicationsfortheestablishedpowerssuch
astheUnitedStates.”
YuenFoongKhong,LiKaShingProfessorofPoliticalScience,
LeeKuanYewSchoolofPublicPolicy,
NationalUniversityofSingapore
“Despite two decades of intensifying struggle – particularly between the
United States, Russia, and China – over international order, scholars still
know very little about what drives states to contest, reform, or accept the
‘rules, norms, and arrangements’ of international politics. Based on careful
historical research, Rohan Mukherjee argues that key institutions of
Internationalorderareessentiallyclubsforgreatpowers.Risingstatescare
abouttherulesandregulationsofthoseclubs:Cantheyjoin?Willtheyget
the same rights as the existing members, or be treated like second-class
citizens?Theanswerstothesetwoquestions,Mukherjeeshows,havemajor
consequencesforthefateofinternationalorders–includingthecurrentone.
AscendingOrderisanimportantandinsightfulcontributiontotheacademic
clubsstudyingstatus,powertransitions,andinternationalorder.”
DanNexon,ProfessorofGovernmentandForeignService,
GeorgetownUniversity,andco-authorofExitfrom
Hegemony:TheUnravelingoftheAmericanGlobalOrder
“Internationalinstitutionshavebeenkeyarenasofcontestationandaccom-
modation of the status aspirations of rising powers since the nineteenth
century. Here is one of the rare historical treatments of how and when
institutions matter for states seeking great power status and the socio-psy-
chologicalcalculationsthatgobehindit.Thisbookisagreatadditiontothe
growingliteratureoninternationalstatusandpowertransitions.”
T.V.Paul,JamesMcGillProfessorofInternationalRelations,
McGillUniversity,Canada,andco-editorofStatusinWorldPolitics
|
Ascending Order
Why do rising powers sometimes challenge an international order that
enables their growth, and at othertimes support anorder that constrains
them?AscendingOrderoffersthefirstcomprehensivestudyofconflictand
cooperationasnewpowersjointheglobalarena.Internationalinstitutions
shape the choices of rising states as they pursue equal status with estab-
lished powers. Open membership rules and fair decision-making proced-
ures facilitate equality and cooperation, while exclusion and unfairness
frequently produce conflict. Using original and robust archival evidence,
thebookexaminesthesedynamicsinthreecases:theUnitedStatesandthe
maritimelawsofwarinthemid-nineteenthcentury;Japanandnavalarms
control in the interwar period; and India and nuclear nonproliferation in
the Cold War. This study shows that the future of contemporary inter-
national order depends on the ability of international institutions to
addressthestatusambitionsofrisingpowerssuchasChinaandIndia.
rohan mukherjee is Assistant Professor of International Relations at
theLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience.Hewaspreviously
Assistant Professor at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. He holds a PhD in
Politics from Princeton University and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and
EconomicsfromtheUniversityofOxford.
|
Cambridge Studies in
International Relations: 160
Ascending Order
editors
EvelynGoh
ChristianReusSmit
NicholasJ.Wheeler
editorial board
JacquelineBest,KarinFierke,WilliamGrimes,YuenFoongKhong,
AndrewKydd,LilyLing,AndrewLinklater,NicolaPhillips,Elizabeth
ShakmanHurd,JacquieTrue,LeslieVinjamuri,AlexanderWendt
CambridgeStudiesinInternationalRelationsisajointinitiativeofCambridge
UniversityPressandtheBritishInternationalStudiesAssociation(BISA).The
series aims to publish the best new scholarship in international studies, irre
spectiveofsubjectmatter,methodologicalapproachortheoreticalperspective.
TheseriesseekstobringthelatesttheoreticalworkinInternationalRelations
tobearonthemostimportantproblemsandissuesinglobalpolitics.
159 ClaireVergerio
War,States,andInternationalOrder
AlbericoGentiliandtheFoundationalMythoftheLawsofWar
158 PeterJoachimKatzenstein
UncertaintyandItsDiscontents
WorldviewsinWorldPolitics
157 JessicaAuchter
GlobalCorpsePolitics
TheObscenityTaboo
156 RobertFalkner
EnvironmentalismandGlobalInternationalSociety
155 DavidTraven
LawandSentimentinInternationalPolitics
Ethics,Emotions,andtheEvolutionoftheLawsofWar
154 AllisonCarnegieandAustinCarson
SecretsinGlobalGovernance
DisclosureDilemmasandtheChallengeofInternationalCooperation
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“Howdoweknowarisingpowerwhenweseeone,whatdorisingpowers
wantandunderwhatconditionsmighttheybesatisfied?RohanMukherjee’s
Ascending Order tackles these questions and provides compelling answers
that are backed up by solid historical scholarship. The book’s distinctive
contribution lies in its argument that rising powers seek symbolic equality
with the established great powers, and that they look to the institutional
opennessandproceduralfairnessofthecoreinstitutionsoftheinternational
systemtodetermineifthatequalityisachievable.Theemphasisonequality,
openness, and fairness is truly original and it adds a fascinating normative
dimension to the analysis of power transition politics. Mukherjee’s argu-
mentswarranttheattentionofscholarsandpolicymakersgrapplingwiththe
riseofChinaandIndia,andtheimplicationsfortheestablishedpowerssuch
astheUnitedStates.”
YuenFoongKhong,LiKaShingProfessorofPoliticalScience,
LeeKuanYewSchoolofPublicPolicy,
NationalUniversityofSingapore
“Despite two decades of intensifying struggle – particularly between the
United States, Russia, and China – over international order, scholars still
know very little about what drives states to contest, reform, or accept the
‘rules, norms, and arrangements’ of international politics. Based on careful
historical research, Rohan Mukherjee argues that key institutions of
Internationalorderareessentiallyclubsforgreatpowers.Risingstatescare
abouttherulesandregulationsofthoseclubs:Cantheyjoin?Willtheyget
the same rights as the existing members, or be treated like second-class
citizens?Theanswerstothesetwoquestions,Mukherjeeshows,havemajor
consequencesforthefateofinternationalorders–includingthecurrentone.
AscendingOrderisanimportantandinsightfulcontributiontotheacademic
clubsstudyingstatus,powertransitions,andinternationalorder.”
DanNexon,ProfessorofGovernmentandForeignService,
GeorgetownUniversity,andco-authorofExitfrom
Hegemony:TheUnravelingoftheAmericanGlobalOrder
“Internationalinstitutionshavebeenkeyarenasofcontestationandaccom-
modation of the status aspirations of rising powers since the nineteenth
century. Here is one of the rare historical treatments of how and when
institutions matter for states seeking great power status and the socio-psy-
chologicalcalculationsthatgobehindit.Thisbookisagreatadditiontothe
growingliteratureoninternationalstatusandpowertransitions.”
T.V.Paul,JamesMcGillProfessorofInternationalRelations,
McGillUniversity,Canada,andco-editorofStatusinWorldPolitics
|
Ascending Order
Why do rising powers sometimes challenge an international order that
enables their growth, and at othertimes support anorder that constrains
them?AscendingOrderoffersthefirstcomprehensivestudyofconflictand
cooperationasnewpowersjointheglobalarena.Internationalinstitutions
shape the choices of rising states as they pursue equal status with estab-
lished powers. Open membership rules and fair decision-making proced-
ures facilitate equality and cooperation, while exclusion and unfairness
frequently produce conflict. Using original and robust archival evidence,
thebookexaminesthesedynamicsinthreecases:theUnitedStatesandthe
maritimelawsofwarinthemid-nineteenthcentury;Japanandnavalarms
control in the interwar period; and India and nuclear nonproliferation in
the Cold War. This study shows that the future of contemporary inter-
national order depends on the ability of international institutions to
addressthestatusambitionsofrisingpowerssuchasChinaandIndia.
rohan mukherjee is Assistant Professor of International Relations at
theLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience.Hewaspreviously
Assistant Professor at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. He holds a PhD in
Politics from Princeton University and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and
EconomicsfromtheUniversityofOxford.
|
Cambridge Studies in
International Relations: 160
Ascending Order
editors
EvelynGoh
ChristianReusSmit
NicholasJ.Wheeler
editorial board
JacquelineBest,KarinFierke,WilliamGrimes,YuenFoongKhong,
AndrewKydd,LilyLing,AndrewLinklater,NicolaPhillips,Elizabeth
ShakmanHurd,JacquieTrue,LeslieVinjamuri,AlexanderWendt
CambridgeStudiesinInternationalRelationsisajointinitiativeofCambridge
UniversityPressandtheBritishInternationalStudiesAssociation(BISA).The
series aims to publish the best new scholarship in international studies, irre
spectiveofsubjectmatter,methodologicalapproachortheoreticalperspective.
TheseriesseekstobringthelatesttheoreticalworkinInternationalRelations
tobearonthemostimportantproblemsandissuesinglobalpolitics.
159 ClaireVergerio
War,States,andInternationalOrder
AlbericoGentiliandtheFoundationalMythoftheLawsofWar
158 PeterJoachimKatzenstein
UncertaintyandItsDiscontents
WorldviewsinWorldPolitics
157 JessicaAuchter
GlobalCorpsePolitics
TheObscenityTaboo
156 RobertFalkner
EnvironmentalismandGlobalInternationalSociety
155 DavidTraven
LawandSentimentinInternationalPolitics
Ethics,Emotions,andtheEvolutionoftheLawsofWar
154 AllisonCarnegieandAustinCarson
SecretsinGlobalGovernance
DisclosureDilemmasandtheChallengeofInternationalCooperation
