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Panel Description:
The papers in this panel all focus on the struggle for, or impact of, status and recognition in international relations. Their theoretical interventions focus on key questions such as how states’ self-representations or self-images matter in the pursuit of recognition or in hotly debated grand strategies, the interplay between status and national identification, and how the state’s position is narrated. Empirically, the papers focus on a broad range of sites, from the pursuit of cultural recognition through world heritage to the minds of the US public. Methodologically, the papers range across quantitative and qualitative approaches, from survey experiments to qualitative process tracing, from interviews with US elites to archival research. These papers, individually and collectively, seek to provide theoretical and empirical insights to important questions of status and recognition as well as international order and grand strategy from diverse perspectives.
