Conversations on Peaceful Change is a series of interviews initiated by the Global Research Network on Peaceful Change (GRENPEC). On this occasion, Dr. T.V. Paul, the Founding Director of GRENPEC and Dr. Deborah Welch Larson, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, engage in a discussion on Dr. Larson's most recent publication, Quest for Status: Chinese and Russian Foreign Policy (Yale University Press), as well as the broader status dynamics amongst major political powers in the contemporary world.