Morality, power, and authority : The role of morality in realism theory -- Levels and components of morality -- Differences between power, capability, and authority -- Influence of morality and strategic credibility -- Leadership and strategic preferences : The role and types of leadership -- Leaderships of a rising state and strategic preferences -- Strategic credibility and international leadership -- The principle of humane authority -- Corollaries of international change : State leadership and change of power configuration state capability, leadership, and strategy preference -- International leadership and norm change -- Changes in international order and systems -- Power redistribution and world center : Leadership and bipolarization -- Bipolar configuration not equal to cold war -- Conditions for forming a world center -- Leadership and international norms : Early studies of leadership and norm change -- Types of leadership and types of norms -- Change in the type of international norms -- International mainstream values : Value challenge and competition -- Devaluation of strategic credibility -- Beyond liberalism -- Transformation of the international system : Component change versus system change -- Conditions for system transformation -- Political leadership and system transformation -- Historical cases of system transformation : Ancient chinese cases -- Cases in modern history -- Conclusion : Theory summarization -- A new bipolar world

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