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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... Internationalism Germany, from Outsider to Insider 1 Overhaul of Orthodoxy in Tokugawa Japan and the Soviet Union The Next Century Appendix 1: The Transformation of Economic Ideas Appendix 2: Analysis of Presidential Discourse Notes ...
... Internationalism,” International Organization 54, no. 2 (2000): 253–89. I am grateful to Blackwell Publishing and MIT Press for permission to use that material here. The University of Virginia has provided several summers of research ...
... internationalist outlook after World War II, it spearheaded an unprecedented level of development in the institutional texture of world politics. Yet, just as international order is made by national ideas, so is it unmade. Ideas do not ...
Great Power Strategies and International Order Jeffrey W. Legro. 1930s. These internationalists nonetheless had to operate within the dominant “no entanglement” orthodoxy even as they tried to change it.31 It is possible therefore to ...
... internationalist groups. And in Gorbachev's USSR, the collective shift away from old foreign policy thinking brought to the fore new thinking groups that had lingered in the shadows for decades. Some scholars have also explained ...
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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 |