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April 2010
"Prestige Matters: Chinese and Russian Status Concerns and U.S. Foreign Policy"
Policy Brief
By Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko
"China and Russia are more likely to engage in constructive status-seeking behavior if the United States finds ways to recognize their international status and distinctive identities. For example, strategic dialogues, formal summits, and strategic partnerships can help to establish issue agendas for future collaboration and symbolize that states are political equals. Engagement through trade and investment does not resolve conflicting political goals."
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Spring 2010
"Status Seekers: Chinese and Russian Responses to U.S. Primacy"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 4, volume 34
By Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko
The United States needs multilateral support to carry out its foreign policy agenda, particularly from rising powers such as China and Russia. Typical strategies that appeal to common norms and values might not work, however, because China and Russia are not part of the liberal Western community. Social identity theory posits that China and Russia are both seeking to restore their great power status. Policymakers, then, should focus on status considerations and incentives to gain Chinese and Russian support to further U.S. foreign policy goals.
August 31, 2006
"The Failure of Chechen Separatism"
Book Chapter
By John Reppert, Former Executive Director for Research and Alexei Shevchenko
"The prospects for independence of nationalist movements which reject globalization are quite poor...."
