Grading greatness: evaluating the status performance of the BRICS

Røren, Pål; Beaumont, Paul

doi:10.1080/01436597.2018.1535892

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“…See also Harrison (2009, 9); Hopf (2012, 79-80);and Shifrinson (2018, 1). On status recognition as a function of assorted competitive performances in international society, see Røren and Beaumont (2019); Ward (2019);and Murray (2019). 5 The definition is from Shifrinson (2018, 13-15).…”

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National Identity and British Foreign Policy

Vučetić¹

2020

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National Identity and British Foreign Policy

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2020

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“…With this focus on hierarchy, status research in IR has emerged from the background to become a promising and productive field of research (See Dafoe et al, 2014 for a comprehensive review). Beyond this established aphorism that countries seek status, IR scholars have recently begun to answer the question of how they seek status, in which ways it is sought, and whom they are seeking it from (see for instance Røren and Beaumont, 2018; Duque, 2018; Pedersen, 2017; Pouliot, 2014; Renshon, 2017; Ward, 2017; Wohlforth et al, 2017). Additionally, we now understand more about how different types of country, in different spatial and temporal contexts, pursue different strategies for attaining status (Beaumont, 2018; De Carvalho and Neumann, 2015; Freedman, 2016; Neumann, 2014; Stolte, 2015; Towns, 2010; Wohlforth et al, 2017).…”

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Status seeking in the friendly Nordic neighborhood

Røren¹

2019

Cooperation and Conflict

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The article argues that the way status is pursued in social groups in world politics is contingent on the type of social relations that constitute interaction between the members. The Nordic region is a group of countries marked by friendship and trust. Here, the numerous societal linkages between the Nordic countries have made their region into a ‘friendly neighborhood’. This has changed the way that these countries pursue status. To explore this status dynamic, the article draws on a series of interviews with Nordic diplomats and argues that a strong friendship both enables collective status seeking, and constrains individual status seeking. Specifically, turning their social group into a friendly neighborhood allows the Nordic countries to posture as a collective polity and seek status on behalf of it. This grants them more status recognition in world politics. Moreover, friendship does not eliminate status rivalry, but it does turn it into a friendly kind of status competition. Indeed, while the intra-regional intensity of the competition endures, the article finds that the Nordic countries are unlikely to compete in ways that might harm their friendship or their neighborhood.

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“…Diplomatic representation is an imperfect measure of status (see Røren and Beaumont, ). However, as noted in most recent research on status, sending embassies represent the closest we may get to recognition practices because they are expensive and require the host state to be important in the eyes of the sending state, and thus in aggregate they signify a certain level of social esteem of the host state (Duque, ).…”

Section: Enter the Corps: The Positional Status Of The Eu (1960–mentioning

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“…However, as noted in most recent research on status, sending embassies represent the closest we may get to recognition practices because they are expensive and require the host state to be important in the eyes of the sending state, and thus in aggregate they signify a certain level of social esteem of the host state (Duque, ). Thus, while diplomatic representation ‘offers a workable proxy for status recognition it is not a panacea, and as such should always be used with its limitations in mind and in tandem with other evidence’ (Røren and Beaumont, , p. 6).…”

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On the Social Status of the European Union

Røren

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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In this article I analyse the EU's social status in world politics. I argue that recognition grants the EU both club and positional status. Drawing on existing literature on status in international relations, I conceptualize the diplomatic corps of various polities as the embodied recognition of their positional status in world politics. To indicate and measure the positional status of the EU, I applied social network analysis to data on the exchange of embassies from 1960 to 2010. This methodology allows for consistent longitudinal comparisons of standing between heterogeneous polities in world politics. The results indicate that the EU's rise in the status hierarchy has been meteoric since 1960. However, fear of status congestion and status dilution among countries has thwarted the EU's full inclusion into the various status clubs of nation-states. I show that due to its lack of full club status the EU struggles to convert its high positional status into influence.

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Grading greatness: evaluating the status performance of the BRICS

Cited by 39 publications

References 81 publications

National Identity and British Foreign Policy

National Identity and British Foreign Policy

Status seeking in the friendly Nordic neighborhood

On the Social Status of the European Union

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