The Sense of Power and Foreign Policy Hawkishness: An Exchange – The Author Replies.

The article discusses the relationship between the sense of power and foreign policy hawkishness among mass publics. The author argues that the sense of state power activates hawkishness, while the sense of weakness leads to dovishness. The author draws on psychological research on power to show that this sense of power explains foreign policy hawkishness in the US, China, and Russia. The article also explores the role of elite persuasion, anger, morality, and national attachment in shaping public hawkishness. The findings have implications for power transition theory and US-China relations. [Extracted from the article]