Table of Contents:
  • The problem of rising powers in international politics
  • The struggle for recognition : state identity and the problem of social uncertainty in international politics
  • The social construction of revisionism : (mis)recognition and the struggle for major power status
  • Weltpolitik : the German aspiration of world power status
  • Recognition refused : the tragedy of German naval ambition before the First World War
  • Looking outward : the American aspiration for world power status
  • Recognition and rapprochement : America's peaceful rise
  • Rising powers and the future of the international order.