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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... example, how Mikhail Gorbachev's “new thinking” fundamentally altered both the Soviet Union's actions and the cold war dynamic that had dominated world politics for forty-five years. Other seismic shifts have similarly marked ...
... example, focused on the nature and different forms of international society, not on its dynamic transformation. They ignored one of the primary sources of change in international life—the collective ideas of major powers. What is clear ...
... example, consider two big contemporary phenomena in world politics: the “rise of China” and the Bush “foreign policy revolution.” China's rapid economic growth and prominence has naturally been a focus of research.9 Considerable ...
... example, he argues that “when an event affects the perceptual predispositions of many members of an organization we can speak of organizational learning.”18 In this view, collective outcomes are mostly conceptualized as the summation of ...
... example, in the interwar period in the United States, the dominant view was to avoid entanglement in great power security politics. Many individuals, however, supported a different, and largely ignored, vision of the United States ...
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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 |