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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... influence of institutions, and the role of domestic politics in world politics.5 In these studies, the collective ideas of nations are often pushed to the wings: they are marginalized as “cheap talk,” a side product of more central ...
... influence officials—face a 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 ...
... influence. Three-quarters of the human brain develops outside of the womb, which is unique among primates. The brain grows at fetal rates for some two years after birth, and full development is not completed until puberty. We have an ...
... influence of habit, and by the actions of those who benefit from them, they can become institutionalized. As organization theorists point out, particularly when groups have intangible goals such as that in the mission statement of the ...
... influence of ideas. Skeptics of the causal role of ideas, even those who might concede ideas have some influence, still assert that ideas themselves are primarily the result of more fundamental forces. Scholars of world politics have ...
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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 |