The inscrutable intentions of great powers/

ROSATO Sebastian

The inscrutable intentions of great powers/ Sebastian Rosato - 2015

Can great powers reach confident conclusions about the intentions of their peers? Many scholars argue that they can. One set of arguments holds that states can deduce others' current intentions from certain domestic characteristics such as their foreign policy goals, ideology or regime type. Another focuses on behavior and maintains that states can infer current intentions by examining their counterparts's arms policies, membership in international institutions, or past actions in the security realm.


FOREIGN POLICY
POLITICS--POWER
UNITED STATES--CHINA