{"product_id":"the-grammar-of-status-competition-international-hierarchies-and-domestic-politics-9780197771778","title":"The Grammar of Status Competition: International Hierarchies and Domestic Politics","description":"States do not only strive for wealth and security, but international status too. A burgeoning body of research has documented that states of all sizes spend considerable time, energy, and even blood and treasure when seeking status on the world stage. Yet, for all scholars' success in identifying instances of status seeking, they lack agreement on the nature of the international hierarchies that states are said to compete within. Making sense of this status ambiguity remains the key methodological and theoretical challenge facing status research in international relations scholarship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Grammar of Status Competition\u003c\/em\u003e, Paul David Beaumont tackles this puzzle head on by making a strength out of status' widely acknowledged slipperiness. Given that states, statesmen, and citizens care about and pursue status despite its difficulty to assess, Beaumont argues that we can study international status hierarchies through these actors' \u003cem\u003eattempts\u003c\/em\u003e to grapple with this same status ambiguity. The book thus redirects inquiry toward the \u003cem\u003etheories of international status\u003c\/em\u003e (TIS) that governments and citizens themselves produce and use to make sense of their state's position in the world. Advancing a new framework for studying such TIS, the book illuminates how specific theories of international status emerge, solidify, and become contested, and how these processes influence domestic and foreign policy. Showcasing the value of a TIS approach via multiple historical case studies--from nuclear arms control to Norwegian education policy--Beaumont thereby addresses three major puzzles in IR status research: why states compete for status when the international rewards seem ephemeral; how states can escape the zero-sum game associated with quests for positional status; and how status scholars can overcome the methodological problem of disentangling status from other motivations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul David Beaumont\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), working in the Global Order and Diplomacy research group. He holds a PhD in International Environmental Studies and Development and a MSc in IR from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. His research interests include IR theory, hierarchies in world politics, the (dis)functioning of international institutions, global environmental politics, nuclear weapons and disarmament, and interpretivist research-methods. Paul's research investigating the influence of international hierarchies has featured in numerous leading IR journals including \u003cem\u003eEuropean Journal of International Relations\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e International Studies Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThird World Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eInternational Relations\u003c\/em\u003e, among others.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929107566866,"sku":"9780197771778","price":94.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9cc579c6-894d-4363-b1f4-ca12bb608bc6.jpg?v=1739032463","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-grammar-of-status-competition-international-hierarchies-and-domestic-politics-9780197771778","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}