Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International OrderCornell University Press, 1. des. 2016 - 272 sider Stunning shifts in the worldviews of states mark the modern history of international affairs: how do societies think about—and rethink—international order and security? Japan's "opening," German conquest, American internationalism, Maoist independence, and Gorbachev's "new thinking" molded international conflict and cooperation in their eras. How do we explain such momentous changes in foreign policy—and in other cases their equally surprising absence? The nature of strategic ideas, Jeffrey W. Legro argues, played a critical and overlooked role in these transformations. Big changes in foreign policies are rare because it is difficult for individuals to overcome the inertia of entrenched national mentalities. Doing so depends on a particular nexus of policy expectations, national experience, and ready replacement ideas. In a sweeping comparative history, Legro explores the sources of strategy in the United States and Germany before and after the world wars, in Tokugawa Japan, and in the Soviet Union. He charts the likely future of American primacy and a rising China in the coming century. Rethinking the World tells us when and why we can expect changes in the way states think about the world, why some ideas win out over others, and why some leaders succeed while others fail in redirecting grand strategy. |
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... argument, and why it matters. The End of the Chain A good starting point is clarity as to what exactly is being explained— that is, continuity and change in the ideas of nation-states about how to relate to international society. The ...
... arguments organized around a specific diagnosis of and solution to some social problem.” Frank Dobbin refers to “industrial cultures” as “economic customs that structure . . . the means-ends designations.” Finally, Sheri Berman studies ...
... Argument Foreign policy idea change (and continuity) depends on preexisting ideas. Collective ideas fundamentally shape their own continuity or transformation (1) by setting the terms and conditions of when change is appropriate and (2) ...
... argument features ideas as a pivot, but it explicitly acknowledges that multiple factors shape the transformation or continuity of foreign policy patterns. To invoke multicausality, however, is not to suggest “everything matters” or a ...
... argument, therefore, builds on extant scholarship on ideas by clarifying the structural dynamics of change. The rest of the section examines how my argument relates to various schools in the study of international relations and the ...
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3 The Ebb and Flow of American Internationalism | 49 |
4 Germany from Outsider to Insider | 84 |
5 Overhaul of Orthodoxy in Tokugawa Japan and the Soviet Union | 122 |
6 The Next Century | 161 |
The Transformation of Economic Ideas | 189 |
Analysis of Presidential Discourse | 199 |
Notes | 201 |
Index | 247 |
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Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order Jeffrey Legro Begrenset visning - 2005 |
Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order Jeffrey W. Legro Begrenset visning - 2005 |
Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order Jeffrey W. Legro Begrenset visning - 2005 |