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Rhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order 中国 A visual and sumptuous odeRecent years have seen a striking resurgence of anti imperial and anticolonial rhetoric on the international stage, from Global South to Global North and from the Left to the Right. Why do states deploy these forms of rhetoric in global politics? How do practitioners from the so called non Western world differ in their use and performance of rhetoric, and in what ways do they shape international order? Sasikumar Sundaram provides a bold new theory of