When do rising powers fail to establish legitimate regional leadership and instead face contestation by their regional challengers? This book investigates how a

We assume that the ideas, interests and strategies of regional powers are highly significant variables, with the power to influence foreign policy. Yet while co

A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international order

Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on

This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine a