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"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"--

Great powers --- History --- International relations --- World politics --- Middle powers --- Powers, Great --- Super powers --- Superpowers --- Middle-ranking powers --- Middle-sized powers --- Powers, Middle --- States, Size of --- States, Small --- rising powers, constructivism, power transitions, great powers, international relations, legitimacy of rising power, American hegemony, power politics, foreign relations.

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This book seeks to answer one main question: what is the core concern of great powers that streamlines their behavior in the contemporary system of international relations? Building on the examples of the United States, China, Russia, France, and Britain, it tracks both consistency and fluctuations in global power dynamics and great power behavior. The author examines the genesis, causality, and policy implications of decision makers’ fixation with retaining a credible image of power in world politics, while exploring how the dynamics of power distribution in international systems modify perceptions of primacy. Drawing on findings from disciplines such as history, economics, social and political psychology, communication theory, philosophy, political science, strategic studies, and above all, from International Relations theory and practice, the volume proposes a novel theory of power credibility, which offers an original explanation of great powers’ behavior at the stage of their relative decline. Sergey Smolnikov teaches in the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics at York University, Canada, and is a former Professor of International Relations at the Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan. .

Great powers. --- World politics --- Powers, Great --- Super powers --- Superpowers --- International relations. --- Security, International. --- Diplomacy. --- United States-Politics and gover. --- Russia-Politics and government. --- International Relations Theory. --- International Security Studies. --- Foreign Policy. --- US Politics. --- Russian and Post-Soviet Politics. --- History --- International relations --- Collective security --- International security --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- United States—Politics and government. --- Russia—Politics and government.