When Right Makes Might : Rising Powers and World Order / / Stacie Goddard.

"Analyzes the question of whether great powers choose to accommodate, contain, or confront a rising power depends on the legitimacy of the challenger's expansionist aims"--

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 2018.
©2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cornell studies in security affairs.
Physical Description:1 online resource (262 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • The great powers' dilemma : uncertainty, intentions, and rising power politics
  • The politics of legitimacy : how a rising power's right makes might
  • America's ambiguous ambition : Britain and the accomodation of the United States, 1817-1823
  • Prussia's rule-bound revolution : Europe and the destruction of the balance of power, 1863-1864
  • Germany's rhetorical rage : Britain and the abandonment of appeasement, 1938-1939
  • Japan's folly : Manchuria and the turn to revolution, 1931-1933
  • Conclusion : legitimacy, power, and strategy.