Rethinking the World

W. Legro Jeffrey

Description

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.

Sujets

• Geopolitics
• International relations

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501707322
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Rethinking the World

A volume in the series

Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

edited byRobert J. Art, Robert Jervis, and Stephen M. Walt

A full list of titles in the series appears at the end of the book.

Rethinking he World t

GREAT POWER STR ATEGIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Jeffrey W. Legro

Cornell University Press

Ithaca and London

Copyright © 2005 by Cornell University

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First published 2005 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging–in–Publication Data

Legro, Jeffrey Rethinking the world : great power strategies and international order / Jeffrey W. Legro. p. cm. — (Cornell studies in security affairs) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN–13: 978–0–8014–4272–8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN–10: 0–8014–4272–9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. International organization. 2. International relations. I. Title. II. Series. JZ1308.L44 2005 327.1'01—dc22 2005008834

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List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Great Power Ideas and Change

Explaining Change and Continuity

Contents

The Ebb and Flow of American Internationalism

Germany, from Outsider to Insider

Overhaul of Orthodoxy in Tokugawa Japan and the Soviet Union

The Next Century

Appendix 1: The Transformation of Economic Ideas Appendix 2: Analysis of Presidential Discourse Notes Index

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Figures and Tables

Conventional 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 international society Collapse: Ideas and events Consolidation: Oppositional ideas and efficacy American foreign policy ideas transformed United States international agreements The development of Japan’s foreign policy A foreign policy revolution?

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