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international relations theory. Prestige, as one of these concepts, deserves

our renewed attention. Veblen’s statement, which opens this chapter, sum-

marizes much of his approach to social science. Good research makes us

think and generates valuable questions. In this book I introduced many

new concepts and frameworks to the study of international relations. I

tried to take a bite at a broad, and so far elusive, theoretical concept. While

the current venture produced many interesting findings, it is my hope that

I was even more successful in generating additional questions and theo-

retical challenges such that “two questions grow where only one grew

before.”