In the Hegemon's Shadow: Leading States and the Rise of Regional Powers

Evan Braden Montgomery

Published by Cornell University Press 2016

In the Hegemon's Shadow

Leading States and the Rise of Regional Powers

Evan Braden Montgomery

In the series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501704017

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About this book

In the Hegemon's Shadow investigates how the leading state in the international system responds to rising powers in peripheral regions—actors that are not yet and might never become great powers but that are still increasing their strength, extending their influence, and trying to reorder their corner of the world.

Author / Editor information

Evan Braden Montgomery is Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

Reviews

Aaron L. Friedberg, Princeton University, author of A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia:

What determines how leading states respond to the rise of regional powers? Evan Braden Montgomery's well-researched book provides a persuasive answer to this important but understudied question. With the United States facing the emergence of India and Iran, as well as China, this book should be of interest to policymakers as well as scholars.

Nuno P. Monteiro, Yale University, author of Theory of Unipolar Politics:

Every great power starts out as a regional power. Yet, we have a limited understanding of what conditions the rise of regional powers. In his elegant and empirically rich book, Evan Braden Montgomery shows how the preferences of great powers constrain the rise of regional powers around the globe, explaining why some regions are dominated by a local hegemon while others display a balance of power. In the Hegemon's Shadow will be of great value for understanding the trajectory of regional powers and the dynamics through which the current U.S.-led global system may be sustained or transformed.

Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Tufts University, author of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery:

In the Hegemon's Shadow poses a significant yet surprisingly understudied question in international relations: How does the leading nation in the international system respond to rising regional powers? The answer to that question has clear significance for debates over the types of strategies that the United States should adopt toward rising powers including China, India, Brazil, and Iran in the twenty-first century.

Montgomery (Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments) provides a unique look at how leading states in the international system deal with rising states that challenge prevailing regional orders. Taking elements from a realist balance of power and a preponderance of power theories, the author develops a model to explain why leading states have supported some rising regional powers and opposed others.... The author seeks to determine the different strategies the leading states of Great Britain (and later the US) adopted concerning regional power struggles, including Egypt from 1831–41, the Confederate States of America, the rise of Japan from 1894–1902, India's emergence from 1962–71, and the rise of Iraq from 1979–91. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers through faculty

G. John Ikenberry:

In this thoughtful study, Montgomery seeks to understand the logic that leads hegemons to variously support, accommodate, and oppose upstart states on their periphery.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowl edgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction: The Puzzle of Regional Power Shifts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. How Leading States Respond to Rising Regional Powers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
2. Egypt’s Bid for Mastery of the Middle East, 1831–1841 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. The Confederacy’s Quest for Intervention and In de pen dence, 1861–1862 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
4. Japan and the Creation of a New Order in East Asia, 1894–1902 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
5. India’s Rise and the Strug gle for South Asia, 1962–1971 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
6. The Emergence of Iraq and the Competition to Control the Gulf, 1979–1991 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Conclusion: The Past and Future of Rising Regional Powers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
- Other: 2 maps, 2 charts
Keywords: leading state; international system; rising powers; power shift; balance of power

eBook

Published: May 24, 2016
ISBN: 9781501704017