Linking Status with Soft Power: Call for a Joint Research Agenda

Abstract

Review article of:

T. V. Paul, Deborah Welch Larson, and William C. Wohlforth, eds., Status in World Politics

(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014, 324 pp., USD 29.33, paperback).

Keywords

• soft power,BRICS,rising powers,non-Western

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