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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... seclusion versus openness, 1853 Crude oil prices, 1949–2004 A typology of national ideas about international society Collapse: Ideas and events Consolidation: Oppositional ideas and efficacy American foreign policy ideas transformed ...
... seclusion practiced by Japan's Tokugawa shogunate from 1640 to 1868, when relations with outside (especially European) powers were largely prohibited and even the Chinese tributary system was resisted. The United States for more than ...
... seclusion attempted to keep Japan outside of the increasing presence of European international society. Yet in 1868, Japan dramatically reversed that position, opening itself to the external world and accepting the rules of engagement ...
... seclusion concept. In contrast, in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, “new thinking” already had a cadre of supporters when Gorbachev became general secretary in 1985. Consolidation, thus, was much easier in the latter case than the former ...
... seclusion policy and Tokugawa legitimacy. Over a hundred years later, Gorbachev seemed to defy his circumstances. Through confidence and charisma, he helped remake Soviet foreign policy and the country. Yet Gorbachev himself was ...
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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 |