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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... ideas of major states. Will Japan adhere to its post–World War II pacifism ... dominant international norms? Perhaps most important, some wonder whether ... ideas matter because they guide foreign policy and are a building block of ...
... dominant rules, institutions, and norms that characterize the international ... ideas of major powers. What is clear is that states have often differed in ... ideas of nations are often pushed to the wings: they are marginalized as “cheap ...
... dominant international power.13 In these cases enduring ideas (e.g., how much to integrate into the extant international order, which states to align with) played a central role. Positing such a ... ideas [3] Great Power Ideas and Change.
... ideas about international politics? Where do we even begin? My short answer is that we start where we want to end—with ideas. New foreign policy ideas are shaped by preexisting dominant ideas and their relationship to experienced events ...
... ideas have to be considered as properties that are not reducible to individual minds. One comes from the classic ... dominant ideas are often embedded in public discourse and symbols that also represent intersubjective phenomena that ...
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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 |