Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International OrderCornell University Press, 2016. 12. 1. - 272페이지 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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... Gorbachev's “new thinking” fundamentally altered both the Soviet Union's actions and the cold war dynamic that had dominated world politics for forty-five years. Other seismic shifts have similarly marked international life over the ...
... Gorbachev became general secretary in 1985. Consolidation, thus, was much easier in the latter case than the former one. The sustainability of a new orthodoxy often hinges on some demonstration of its efficacy. Ideas that endure seem to ...
... 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 national ideas by emphasizing leaders ...
... Gorbachev seemed to defy his circumstances. Through confidence and charisma, he helped remake Soviet foreign policy and the country. Yet Gorbachev himself was selected because he was a reformer, and he had few foreign policy plans of ...
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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 |