TY - BOOK AU - ROSATO Sebastian TI - The inscrutable intentions of great powers PY - 2015/// KW - FOREIGN POLICY KW - POLITICS KW - POWER KW - UNITED STATES KW - CHINA N2 - 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 ER -