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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... international society Collapse: Ideas and events Consolidation: Oppositional ideas and efficacy American foreign policy ideas transformed United States international agreements The development of Japan's foreign policy A foreign policy ...
... international society”— the dominant rules, institutions, and norms that characterize the international system.2 In other situations, nations understand their interests as best served by separating themselves from that society, or even ...
... international society. The term “ideas” inevitably invokes a wide range of images. My concern is with foreign policy ideas that can be differentiated from others in three basic ways that relate to their level, type, and content; such ...
Great Power Strategies and International Order Jeffrey W. Legro. The seminal work of Robert Jervis on psychology and international ... society. Scholars of organizations have developed a second literature that documents the way that ...
... societies and the literature on organizations come together in the collective body that is central to this study: the modern nation-state, itself both society and organization. As large societies, nations require ideas that signify to ...
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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 W. Legro Begrenset visning - 2005 |
Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order Jeffrey W. Legro Begrenset visning - 2005 |