What is status? How does it work? What effects does it tend to have? A new wave of scholarship on status in international relations has converged on a central definition of status, several causal pathways, and the claim that the pursuit of status tends to produce conflict. The authors take stock of the status literature and argue that this convergence is not only a sign of progress, but also an obstacle to it. They find that the consensus definition conceals critical contradictions between standing and membership, that its causal pathways are promising but often in tension with each other, and that the literature may be overlooking the ways in which status can help states avoid conflict and promote cooperation under certain conditions.

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世界政治中的地位状况

什么是状态？它是如何工作的？它往往会产生什么影响？新一波关于国际关系地位的学术研究集中在地位的核心定义、几个因果路径以及追求地位往往会产生冲突的主张上。作者对地位文献进行了评估，并认为这种趋同不仅是进步的标志，也是进步的障碍。他们发现，共识定义隐藏了地位和成员资格之间的严重矛盾，其因果路径是有希望的，但往往相互矛盾，并且文献可能忽略了地位可以帮助国家避免冲突和促进合作的方式在某些情况下状况。