Status, States, and Moral Sentiments How Respect and Disrespect Shape International Politics

Reinhard Wolf, Professor, Goethe University

Reinhard Wolf is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He has previously held academic posts at the Universities of Greifswald and Halle as well as research positions at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Institut français des relations internationales, Chatham House, the University of Maryland, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current research focuses on international order and the political role of status and emotions.

Part I: Theory1. The concept of respect2. Status dimensions and the experience of respect3. Social and political consequences of respect and disrespectPart II: Case Studies4. Yearning for a partnership of equals: Post-Soviet Russia's responses to U.S respect and disrespect5. Defying disrespectful rescuers: Debt-ridden Greece and its creditors6. From mutual insults to mutual respect (and back): Trump, Kim, and North Korea's nuclear armaments7. Conclusion: the significance of respect for scholars and practitioners