Essence of Interstate Leadership

Yan Xuetong is Director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University.Fang Yuanyuan is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University.

“In this era of US–China rivalry, an important reminder that leadership – of both rising and ruling powers – can be the difference between coexistence and codestruction.” Graham Allison, Harvard Kennedy School

• 1. Interstate Leadership, Moral Realism, and Its Critiques - Yan Xuetong and Fang Yuanyuan2. IR Moral Realism as A Universal Theory - Yan Xuetong3. Moral Realism as An Alternative Approach to Agent-Structure Problem - Fang Yuanyuan4. Prospects, Promise, and Limitations of Moral Realism - Wang Qingxin5. Ideal Morality and Realist Interest of Moral Realism - Kai He 6. The Conception of Morality in Moral Realism - Feng Zhang 7. Moral Realism and Hegemonic Transition - Athanasios Platias and Vasilis Trigkas 8. Innovation of Moral Realism and Dialogue with It - Mario Telò9. Moral Realism and Sino-American Relations - Deborah Welch Larson10. Moral Realism on Interstate Leadership in Response to Critics - Yan XuetongAppendix 1: Pen Discussion Between Rajesh Rajagopalan and Yan XuetongAppendix 2: “Chinese School” as An Inappropriate Title