Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Status and International Organizations
5. Status in Early Modern and Modern World Politics 35
6. Network Power Europe and Competition at the UN Human Rights Council 61
7. Social Mobility in the Global Order 83
8. Knowledge, Ideology and Competition
9. The Civilizing Force of National Competition 107
10. ‘Free Trade’ and the Varieties of Eighteenth-Century State Competition 133
11. The Development of Neoliberal Measures of Competitiveness 155
12. Competing Powers 183
13. Competition and Emergent Technologies
14. Diplomacy and Artificial Intelligence in Global Political Competition 213
15. Small, Smart, Powerful? 233
16. Between Strategic Autonomy and International Norm-setting 261
17. Afterword
18. Competition During Covid-19 289
19. About the Authors 301