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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... factors—specifically power or interest groups—in explaining foreign policy change and continuity, but instead to make sense of how ideas interact with other factors in specific ways to cause outcomes. In short, the explanation I find ...
... factors typically treated as logical alternatives. Metaphorically, the analysis is similar to explaining how your arm might lift a coffee cup. Instead of simply asking whether the brain (ideas) or muscles (power) or hand (interest ...
... factors, shape outcomes. In the collapse stage, the interaction between ideas and the consequences of experienced events is central. As explained in the next chapter, in most circumstances the interaction of expectations and events ...
... factors shape the transformation or continuity of foreign policy patterns. To invoke multicausality, however, is not to suggest “everything matters” or a laundry list of variables. What I offer is a framework that explains how ideas ...
... factors in explaining and managing international politics. Such factors do indeed matter, but they matter only in conjunction with ideational dynamics, coming together in patterned ways to bring about change in some instances 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 |