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Power Problems • December 14, 2021 

# Competing for Status? 

The desire for high status drives great powers’ foreign policies. Cambridge University professor Steven Ward discusses how status concerns motivate rising powers like China as well as declining powers like the United States, and how that can produce belligerent policies and exacerbate international tensions.

**Show Notes**

- [Steven Ward bio](https://stevenmward.wordpress.com/)
- Steven Ward, [*Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers*](https://www.amazon.com/Status-Challenge-Rising-Powers-Steven/dp/1107182360), (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
- Steven Ward, “[Status from Fighting? Reassessing the Relationship Between Conflict Involvement and Diplomatic Risk](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03050629.2020.1708350),” *International Interactions* 46, no. 2 (February 2020).
- Paul Musgraves and Steven Ward, “[Testing Tripwire Theory Using Survey Experiments](https://preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/article-details/6149d6b539ef6a59682494c8),” *APSA Preprints*, 2021.

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