Russia, Putin, and the Psychology of Status (Robert Wright & Steven Ward)

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News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Steven’s book, Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers ... How concerns about status motivate Russia’s aggressive behavior ... Bob wonders if Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine was based on emotion ... Why Steven thinks Russia’s hostile reaction to NATO expansion was partly about status ... When does a nation's wounded pride translate into dangerous behavior? ... Seeing the rise of China as a bid for prestige and recognition ... Bob: Is the US driven by status considerations? ... Applying Steven’s argument to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:09.7	Hi, Stephen.
0:11.5	Hi, Bob.
0:12.4	How are you doing?
0:13.5	Doing well.
0:14.1	How are you?
0:16.0	I'm doing okay.
0:17.5	I can't complain.
0:18.7	There are some unsettling world events that are relevant to the conversation
0:22.9	we're about to have. Let me introduce this first. I'm Robert Wright. This is the right show available
0:27.7	on both streaming video and via audio podcast. You're Stephen Ward. You're a professor at Cambridge
0:33.5	University in England. You've written a book that we're going to talk about called Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers.
0:43.7	And does it have a subtitle?
0:47.6	No subtitle.
0:48.7	No subtitle because it's a clear and explicit and descriptive title.
0:53.8	This was my,
0:54.8	this was my editor.
0:56.3	Oh,
0:56.5	really?
0:57.2	Yeah.
0:58.1	That's interesting.
1:00.2	Well,
	...

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