Great power management and ambiguous order in nineteenth-century international society

dc.contributor.authorZala, Benjamin
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-20T20:56:51Z
dc.date.available2020-12-20T20:56:51Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.updated2020-11-23T10:36:27Z
dc.description.abstractThis article considers what the nineteenth century can tell us about the nature of great power management under conditions of ambiguity in relation to the holders of great power status. It charts the development of an institutionalised role for the great powers as managers of international society but with a specific focus on the mutual recognition, and conferral, of status. Such a focus highlights the changing, and sometimes competing, perceptions of not only which states should be thought of as great powers, but also therefore whether the power structure of international society remained multipolar or shifted towards bipolarity or even unipolarity. The article argues that a ‘golden age’ of great power management existed during a period in which perceptions of great power status were in fact more fluid than the standard literature accounts for. This means that predictions surrounding the imminent demise of the social institution of great power management under an increasingly ambiguous interstate order today may well be misplaced.
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dc.identifier.issn0260-2105
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/218079
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.sourceReview of International Studies
dc.titleGreat power management and ambiguous order in nineteenth-century international society
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage388
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage367
local.contributor.affiliationZala, Benjamin, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidZala, Benjamin, u1010558
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160607 - International Relations
local.identifier.absseo940399 - International Relations not elsewhere classified
local.identifier.ariespublicationu8701575xPUB240
local.identifier.citationvolume43
local.identifier.doi10.1017/S0260210516000292
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84988448049
local.identifier.thomsonID000398518700009
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local.type.statusPublished Version

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