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. |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 92
... countries (e.g., Japan and the United States) decline in relative terms?10 As important as these questions are, what ... country on earth, but U.S. government involvement did not expand during the interwar period. China's power has been ...
... countries, most of the time, there is rarely just one opinion of what policy is appropriate; there are always defenders and critics of any single position. For example, in the interwar period in the United States, the dominant view was ...
... countries “see the past in a new light.”38 I hope to illuminate exactly how and when this happens. Content A final distinction concerns the substance or issue area of the ideas to be examined. We might classify collective ideas by ...
... country may be very involved in the global political arena but remain aloof from or resistant to extant institutions and norms. Generally, integration implies a cooperative or collaborative approach toward the Great Powers that define ...
... country represents one ideal position, and typically every country embodies some element of each. Why do the foreign policy ideas of specific nations show continuity in some instances and change in others? “Change” in this study refers ...
Innhold
1 | |
24 | |
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 |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
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 |