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In the midst of escalating US - China tensions, I highly recommend @segoddard's book 'When Right Makes Might', provocative, learned, enthralling and a remarkable achievement 👇🏾 1/

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How do great powers determine rising powers' intentions?

Using 4 absorbing historical cases @segoddard shows that great powers evaluate how rising powers legitimize their ambitions through rhetoric

@segoddard predicts the relative success of legitimation attempts based on the rising power's ability to speak to multiple audiences and the incumbent great power's institutional vulnerability

For @segoddard, great powers are most likely to see the rising power as a revisionist power when the rising power is unable to speak to multiple audiences and the great power is institutionally vulnerable

⚠️ US - China

If the United States' understanding of China has shifted due to China's reduced ability to resonate across domestic, regional and global audiences and the weakening of the liberal international order,
@segoddard predicts we are headed for more conflict

To learn more about @segoddard's outstanding contribution, see our @HDiplo roundtable with Ronald Krebs, @dmedelstein @mkmurray78 @Ali_Wyne 👇🏾

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