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In Rising Powers and Foreign Policy Revisionism, Cameron Thies and Mark Nieman examine the identity and behavior of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) in light of concerns that rising powers may become more aggressive and conflict-prone. The authors develop a theoretical framework that encapsulates pressures for revisionism through the mechanism of competition, and pressures for accommodation and assimilation through the mechanism of socialization. The identity and behavior of BRICS should be a product of these two forces as mediated by their domestic foreign policy processes. State identity is investigated qualitatively by using role theory and identifying national role conceptions, while economic and militarized conflict behavior are examined using Bayesian change-point modeling, which identifies structural breaks in a time series of data revealing potential wholesale revision of foreign policy. Using this innovative approach to show the behavior of rising powers is not simply governed by the structural dynamics of power, but also by the roles these rising powers define for themselves, they assert this process will likely lead to a much more evolutionary approach to foreign policy and will not necessarily generate international conflict.

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By combining structural and ideational variables, Thies and Nieman enlarge our understanding of the rising power phenomenon and add much to one of the most important issue areas of international relations. - T. V. Paul, McGill University In this book, Thies and Nieman make a significant contribution to the literature on rising powers, challenging some of the received wisdom about this important group of states. By developing a role theoretical approach to foreign policy analysis and by applying the approach to some of the key rising powers in the contemporary international system they are able to generate a series of fascinating insights about this group of states. - Richard Little, University of Bristol

""By combining structural and ideational variables, Thies and Nieman enlarge our understanding of the rising power phenomenon and add much to one of the most important issue areas of international relations."" - T. V. Paul, McGill University ""In this book, Thies and Nieman make a significant contribution to the literature on rising powers, challenging some of the received wisdom about this important group of states. By developing a role theoretical approach to foreign policy analysis and by applying the approach to some of the key rising powers in the contemporary international system they are able to generate a series of fascinating insights about this group of states."" - Richard Little, University of Bristol

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Cameron G. Thies is Professor and Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Mark David Nieman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University.

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