June 26, 2023 - Moreover, potentially revisionist autocratic states, most notably China and Russia, are already substantial players and stakeholders in an ensemble of global institutions that make up the status quo, not least the UN Security Council (in which ...

February 21, 2019 - At this point, all three revisionist regimes rely for domestic support on nationalist hostility to the United States specifically and Western democracies more generally and reject being part of a U.S.-led coalition. Fortunately, Russia is much weaker than the Soviet Union, China is restrained by both deterrence and the knowledge that military conflict would damage its economy, and Iran is a regional power.

May 13, 2026 - Powerful and influential nations ... likely to fall under the category of status quo states while Russia, North Korea, Iran and other nations dissatisfied with their place in the international system are termed revisionist states....

Regime type might be an explanation of state revisionism as autocratic · domestic political structure and ideology could make states more aggressive (e.g., Kupchan, 1998), while others find that there is little difference in democracy and authoritarian states’ · revisionist tendency (Götz & Merlen, 2019).

June 30, 2022 - A key unwritten assumption underlies most of today’s strategic thinking on US foreign policy: that stable multipolarity is impossible because of fundamentally aggressive and revisionist states that seek to rewrite international institutions, grab territory, and challenge the status quo.

January 9, 2020 - Autocratic states are more likely to increase repression during foreign policy-oriented disputes, as opposed to those fought over territory, which are less likely to escalate to full-scale war, and more likely to be domestically motivated.

November 12, 2020 - The United States is the leader of the free world and the principal architect of a rules-based international system that has brought the world 75 years of unprecedented peace, prosperity, and freedom. China under the CCP is a revisionist autocracy vying to disrupt and displace this system.

April 3, 2020 - Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and has been working hard for over a decade to expand its influence across the Middle East, from Yemen to the Mediterranean coast. Its designs have generated alarm and caused some of its neighbors to retaliate by sponsoring armed clients of their own, with devastating and protracted conflict as a result. Russia, similarly, has a revisionist and expansionist agenda, seeking not only to subdue the states that were part of the former Soviet Union, but to sow division and undermine Western states and institutions.

These states · share common objectives in undermining U.S. global leadership · and elements of the international system that promote democra­ · cy and human rights, while seeking to reshape them to endorse · autocratic rule and the use of coercion and military force to ad­

October 20, 2025 - The change desired by nations can take many forms: redrawing borders, rebalancing regional power balances or creating alternative rules, norms and institutions to the ones that currently structure international politics. The key is that revisionists nations aren’t just unhappy with specific policies – they’re dissatisfied with the broader system and want to reshape it in fundamental ways.

August 20, 2022 - The Revisionist Powers are a loose alliance of anti-western nations that are aspiring to end America’s global hegemony, in order to reshape the world’s power structure in their favor. The most central members of this authoritarian, eastern based entente of illiberal democracies, authoritarian regimes and dictatorships are the People’s Republic of China and the Russian

January 27, 2026 - Abstract The formal assessment of the United States of America as of January 2026 indicates a non-linear transition from a constitutional federal republic toward a Revisionist Autocratic Hegemon. This transition is characterized by the systematic dismantling of civilian oversight, the weaponization of the Executive Branch, and the implementation of a domestic and foreign policy framework

November 21, 2025 - And these powers actively sought ... the term Revisionist state can refer to any state that is dissatisfied with the current international order and takes action to change it....

December 20, 2007 - This line of criticism relates to how Classical Realists typically enumerate such foreign policy goals as Power, Security, and Glory (Aron, 1984) — the terms differ slightly — and then go on to assess constellations of them. The problem, critics contend, is that Realists argue that all states are entangled in the perennial struggle for more power while they also contend that these states pursue different goals — some are revisionist, others are status quo oriented.

November 21, 2017 - Revisionist states favor modifications to the prevailing order: its rules and norms, its distribution of goods or benefits, its implicit structure or hierarchy, its social rankings that afford status or recognition, its division of territory ...

February 3, 2026 - Status quo state is a term from power transition theory within the wider field of international relations. It is used to describe states, that unlike revisionist states, see the international system of states, international law and often even free market economics as integral aspects of the ...

May 9, 2022 - Revisionism, on the other hand, is rather a state’s dissatisfaction with the international order. Instead of acting to preserve the international order, a revisionist or ‘revolutionary’ state has a strong will to change the norms accepted by status quo nations.

October 10, 2015 - The United States as the sole world power is considered a status quo state, and Russia is considered the classic example of a revisionist state. Although Russia is powerful and influential in its own right, it is not as powerful or influential ...

March 31, 2025 - (THE CONVERSATION) Once upon a time, “revisionist power” was a term reserved for nations trying to overturn the postwar liberal order – the usual suspects being countries like Russia, China or Iran. ... But lately, that concept is starting to fray. When Beijing’s top diplomat says the United States is the one disrupting global stability, and respected analysts argue that Washington itself is acting like a revisionist state, the label suddenly looks a lot less tidy.