Identifying Regional Powers and Their Status

Cline, Kirssa; Rhamey, Patrick; Henshaw, Alexis; Sedziaka, Alesia A.; Tandon, Aakriti; Volgy, Thomas J.

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“… 68. For the definition of major powers, we follow the operationalization in the COW database, and add regional powers for the period after 1989 (Cline et al 2011). Regime type is coded according to the Polity IV score for democracies. …”

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Explaining the Transnational Design of International Organizations

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Past decades have witnessed a shift in international cooperation toward growing involvement of transnational actors (TNAs), such as nongovernmental organizations, multinational corporations, and philanthropic foundations. This article offers a comprehensive theoretical and empirical account of TNA access to IOs. The analysis builds on a novel data set, covering formal TNA access to 298 organizational bodies from fifty IOs over the time period 1950 to 2010. We identify the most profound patterns in TNA access across time, issue areas, policy functions, and world regions, and statistically test competing explanations of the variation in TNA access. The central results are three-fold. First, the empirical data confirm the existence of a far-reaching institutional transformation of IOs over the past sixty years, pervading all issue areas, policy functions, and world regions. Second, variation in TNA access within and across IOs is mainly explained by a combination of three factors: functional demand for the resources of TNAs, domestic democratic standards in the membership of IOs, and state concerns with national sovereignty. Third, existing research suffers from a selection bias that has led it to overestimate the general importance of a new participatory norm in global governance for the openness of IOs.

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“…Earlier works have often ignored this issue, assuming that regional leadership is but a consequence of a state's overwhelming material capabilities. Yet, pointing to the chasm between such stipulations and empirical observations, others have maintained that the aspirations (Nel and Stephen 2010), the willingness (Cline et al 2011) or the self-perception (Lopez-Lucia 2015) of states vis-à-vis assuming leadership should take centre stage in analyses of why they claim the role of leaders and adapt their foreign policy behaviour accordingly.…”

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Public diplomacy and regional leadership struggles: the case of Saudi Arabia

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2021

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In light of recent Saudi Arabian foreign policy, this article examines the valorization of public diplomacy in regional leadership struggles—a widely neglected topic in discussion on regional powers. Concentrating on regions with distinct power hierarchies, the literature offers nuanced explanations for how already-established regional leaders seek to maintain their position but only limited discussion of how ambitious states seek to assume leadership in the first place. The proposed binary set of coercive and persuasive strategies used by aspirant leaders does not capture the complexities of these regional leadership struggles. This article argues instead that aspirant leaders lacking the power assets to exclusively embark on either strategy become prone to resorting to a strategy mix combining elements of both coercion and persuasion. Because of the inconsistencies arising from applying such antithetical policies, however, public diplomacy significantly gains in importance as a magnifying and balancing tool amid this strategy mix.

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“…Regional groups are also status groups. 11 As to more ideational groups, these involve the states that a given state sees as its immediate competitors.…”

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Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking

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We develop scholarship on status in international politics by focusing on the social dimension of small and middle power status politics. This vantage opens a new window on the widely-discussed strategies social actors may use to maintain and enhance their status, showing how social creativity, mobility, and competition can all be system-supporting under some conditions. We extract lessons for other thorny issues in status research, notably questions concerning when, if ever, status is a good in itself; whether it must be a positional good; and how states measure it.

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Identifying Regional Powers and Their Status

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Explaining the Transnational Design of International Organizations

Explaining the Transnational Design of International Organizations

Public diplomacy and regional leadership struggles: the case of Saudi Arabia

Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking

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