An offensive realism approach to navigate the changing dynamics of summit-level dialogue between the AU and great powers
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DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2024.2306706
Abstract: Abstract This paper examines the changing dynamics of summit-level dialogue between the African Union and the Great Powers, using offensive realism as a theoretical lens. A qualitative approach with an in-depth literature review was developed.… read more here.
Keywords: great powers; level dialogue; african union; changing dynamics ... See more keywords
Realism and great power subversion
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DOI: 10.1177/0047117820968858
Abstract: I present a realist theory of subversion among great powers, an understudied phenomenon in the burgeoning literature on subversive statecraft. I show that a simple, rational cost-benefit calculus accounts for comparatively low-levels of subversion among… read more here.
Keywords: realism great; subversion; great power; great powers ... See more keywords
Illusions of independence: frustrated agency and the politics of great power (mis)recognition
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DOI: 10.1332/20437897y2023d000000031
Abstract: How do declining great powers cope with a sudden loss of status? Great powers establish routinized relations of recognition to maintain and reproduce their status as great powers in the international sphere. During periods of… read more here.
Keywords: great powers; recognition; politics; status ... See more keywords