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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... Explaining Change and Continuity The Ebb and Flow of American 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 ...
... explanation of change Two-stage model of change American foreign policy ideas, 1908–1950 Map of Japan about 1850 Daimyo opinion on seclusion versus openness, 1853 Crude oil prices, 1949–2004 A typology of national ideas about ...
... explaining how individual ideas come together to affect (or in many cases not affect) national ideas, such as those that guide foreign policies.7 Constructivists, by contrast, have focused on collective ideas and illuminated their ...
... explain their sources, however. Lacking such an explanation, we are handcuffed in considering, for example, how China's power trajectory will shape world politics. Perhaps even more important is whether the United States is currently ...
... explain, the conceptual and historical puzzles involved, the broad outlines of the argument, and why it matters. The End of the Chain A good starting point is clarity as to what exactly is being explained— that is, continuity and change ...
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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 |