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In this paper, Jennifer Lind (and co-author Joshua Shifrinson) examine the question of why some countries successfully join the great power ranks, while others fail. They argue that rising countries confront challenges related to both internal development and external security. Cooperation with an existing great power (often in the form of alliances or other security partnerships) can provide a rising state with both knowledge and resources that abets its internal development, and can enhance the rising state’s security vis-à-vis external challenges. The paper illustrates these dynamics in the cases of the Anglo-Japan alliance, and contemporary Sino-American relations.
Jennifer Lind is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire), and a fellow at Chatham House.