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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... shifts have similarly marked international life over the past two centuries. When Japan emerged from two hundred ... shift in the direction of harmonious engagement. When Soviet Russia rejected the dominant ethos of the international ...
... shifts that nations have taken in a particular direction at different times in relation to specific unique national ... shift in the way a state conceives of its relations with the world. “Continuity” refers to a basic uniformity of ...
... shift as inevitable due to declining Soviet power and economic vitality, there was no overwhelming reason it had to occur in the 1980s. Some of the same conditions that allegedly provoked the new thinking existed in earlier decades as ...
... shifts in national ideas are represented as a single sweeping phenomenon. Yet these changes are more usefully visualized as two distinct stages, which in practice are often difficult to disentangle (see figures 1.1 and 1.2). First ...
... shift in power away from liberal integrationist groups and their supporters. In the United States the heavy burdens of “aloofness” thinking in the Great Depression and the specter of world war in Europe in the 1930s undermined ...
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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 |