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Putin and the psychology of status

A conversation with Steven Ward
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This is my conversation with Steven Ward, who teaches political science at Cambridge University and is the author of Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers. Though the book doesn’t focus on Russia, Ward’s paradigm—which emphasizes the role of status considerations in international relations—bears on the question of what has motivated Vladimir Putin’s…

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