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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... individuals hold. Not surprising, given its focus on the human mind, psychology has been less helpful in explaining how individual ideas come together to affect (or in many cases not affect) national ideas, such as those that guide ...
... individual leaders who cause national policies, or (2) the property of states with the same psychological biases as humans, or (3) are a summation of individual ideas that somehow “add up” to cause national policy.17 The seminal work of ...
... individual perception. Individuals may speak a language and use it for their own purposes, but the language itself is a preexisting entity to which they must adapt. Similarly, dominant ideas are often embedded in public discourse and ...
... individuals involved in the planning and conduct of, say, foreign policy.27 Organizations are certainly created and run by people, but such organizations can also constrain and shape individual ideas. The literature on broad societies ...
... individuals and subgroups may challenge them. A focus on enduring collective ideas can be found in various guises in the social science literature. Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpol highlight the importance of “policy legacies.” Peter ...
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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 |