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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... challenge. In the absence of some general notion about the transformation of ideas, we cannot begin to think about likely outcomes in ongoing specific cases. For example, consider two big contemporary phenomena in world politics: the ...
... challenged by individuals offering different ideas. Collective ideational change, therefore, is inherently political and conflictual. Dominant ideas are almost never monolithic entities, reproduced and accepted in the mind of each and ...
... challenge them. A focus on enduring collective ideas can be found in various guises in the social science literature. Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpol highlight the importance of “policy legacies.” Peter Hall uses the notion of “policy ...
... challenges to, existing norms and rules. Separatist National rhetoric and doctrines that critique involvement with the dominant rules. With- Tokugawa Japan, United States before World War II, Cultural Revolution era China. drawal or ...
... challenging international society and by expanding its homeland at the expense of other nations. Yet after World War II, West Germany embraced a completely different understanding of how to provide for its security—one that accepted and ...
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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 |