Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power

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What are rising powers? Do they challenge the international order? Why do some countries, but not others, become rising powers? In Why Nations Rise, Manjari Chatterjee Miller argues that some countries rise not just because they develop the military and economic power to do so, but because they develop particular narratives about how to become a great power in the style of the great power of the great power of the day. She uses historical cases to understand the divergent paths of contemporary China and India.

Manjari Chatterjee Miller is a Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is on leave from the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University where she is a tenured Associate Professor of International Relations. She is also a Research Associate at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford. She is the author of two books (Wronged by Empire and Why Nations Rise), and the co-editor of a Handbook on China-India Relations. She received her PhD from Harvard University, and a completed a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University.

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