2021
DOI: 10.1177/13540661211048776
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Roleplay, realpolitik and ‘great powerness’: the logical distinction between survival and social performance in grand strategy

Abstract: States exist in an anarchic international system in which survival is the necessary precursor to fulfilling all of their citizens’ other interests. Yet states’ inhabitants – and the policymakers they empower – also hold social ideas about other ends that the state should value and how it should pursue them: the ‘role’ they expect their state to ‘play’ in international politics. Furthermore, such role-performative impulses can motivate external behaviours inimical to security-maximization – and thus to the stat… Show more

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