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2 - Conceptual Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2022

Rohan Mukherjee
Rohan Mukherjee
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London School of Economics and Political Science
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This chapter lays down the conceptual foundations of Institutional Status Theory. It situates IST in the literature on status in world politics, and on social identity in particular. It elaborates on the concept of status as an intrinsic value and as a role that entails symbolic equality with higher-status actors, as distinct from status as a set of valued attributes. It discusses the psychological and social foundations of IST, in particular its relationship to and difference from constructivist theory. Finally, the chapter theorizes the great-power club and international institutions as sites of status struggles.

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rising powersrevisionismdissatisfactionstatusinternational ordersymbolic equalitysocial identity theoryconstructivismclub theoryinternational institutions
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Ascending Order
Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions
 , pp. 28 - 54
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Conceptual Foundations
  • Rohan Mukherjee, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book: Ascending Order
  • Online publication: 21 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009186803.002
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  • Conceptual Foundations
  • Rohan Mukherjee, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book: Ascending Order
  • Online publication: 21 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009186803.002
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  • Conceptual Foundations
  • Rohan Mukherjee, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book: Ascending Order
  • Online publication: 21 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009186803.002
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