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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... groups and to understanding group dynamics. We have lived in groups for thousands of years and have been selected to think in terms of group interests and ideas, not just self-interest.22 Our biology invites social influence. Three ...
... interest groups—in explaining foreign policy change and continuity, but instead to make sense of how ideas interact with other factors in specific ways to cause outcomes. In short, the explanation I find most persuasive is a synthesis ...
... (interest groups) does more, I explore how the brain, muscles, and hand work together to lift the cup in some instances but not others. The central emphasis is on the role of ideas (simply because it is the least understood), but the ...
... interest groups and individuals that promote replacement ideas. As we will see, the rhetoric and justifications leaders employ are not simply instrumental tools; they can also either expand or deflate social expectations about dominant ...
... types of factors in explaining and managing international politics. Such factors do indeed matter, but they matter only ... interest groups within societies or the influence of individual leaders. A third group, “constructivist” writings ...
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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 |