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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... integration in the international system, or for a Qing-era isolationism, or a rebellion against the existing order? Might Germany one day leave behind its integrationist mind-set and revive a revisionist foreign policy, one that seeks ...
... integration in international order—what Hedley Bull called “international society”— the dominant rules, institutions, and norms that characterize the international system.2 In other situations, nations understand their interests as best ...
... integrate into the extant international order, which states to align with) played a central role. Positing such a role for ideas does not explain their sources, however. Lacking such an explanation, we are handcuffed in considering, for ...
... integration, defined here as an acceptance of and cooperative participation in the prevailing international society. Germany or Canada in the past several decades lean toward this position. China has moved in this direction since 1979 ...
... integration in an increasingly institutionalized global order. This change defies simple answers. It was not, for example, foreordained by the cold war—as demonstrated by the intense debate in West Germany after the war about what its ...
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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 |