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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... efforts on modes or methods of output, rather than actual goals.36 Such ideas can even become what Ernest May has called “axiomatic”—formulations derived from history that become accepted assumptions of foreign policy.37 Naturally ...
... and doctrines that value engagement with the extant norms and rules. Efforts to join or sustain extant institutions. Meiji Japan, Germany and the United States after World War II, Deng's China. [10] Rethinking the World.
... efforts to challenge and change dominant social beliefs. It is often hard for individuals to know whether others desire change and, if they do, how much they are willing to risk or contribute. Lacking such information, they cannot be ...
... Efforts to overturn the old orthodoxy will not fracture over disagreement on what replacement idea to promote. When structures involve multiple alternative ideas, efforts to replace the old thinking may be hindered by infighting: such a ...
... efforts were likely to provoke. The Soviet Union in the 1970s enlarged the very geopolitical competition that helped undermine its ability to function. Tokugawa Japan after 1640 paid less attention to the development of military ...
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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 |