Book review: Worldviews of aspiring powers: domestic foreign policy debates in China, India, Iran, Japan, and Russia

Worldviews of Aspiring Powers considers domestic foreign policy debates in five emerging influential world powers: China, Japan, India, Russia and Iran. Featuring leading regional scholars, each essay identifies the most important domestic schools of thought and connects them to the historical and institutional sources that fuel each nation’s foreign policy experience. Ilana Rothkopf encounters some US-centricity, but overall finds that this in-depth text bridges the gap between comparative politics and International Relations.