'Steven Ward has written an excellent guide to discern at what point reasonable requests for reform of the world order shift towards an outward rejection of that system.' Axel Dessein, Rising Powers Quarterly
Introduction; 1. Revisionism, order, and rising powers; 2. Status, foreign policy, and revisionism; 3. 'World power' and revisionism in Wilhelmine Germany; 4. Japan joins the 'community of the damned'; 5. A peace 'incompatible with our honor' – status and the genesis of revisionism in interwar Germany; 6. Status and the Anglo-American power transition; 7. Status, order, and the rise of China; 8. Conclusion; 9. References.