Rethinking the World : : Great Power Strategies and International Order / / Jeffrey W. Legro.
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 t...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 7 tables, 5 charts/graphs, 1 map |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Great Power Ideas and Change -- 2. Explaining Change and Continuity -- 3. The Ebb and Flow of American Internationalism -- 4. Germany, from Outsider to Insider -- 5. Overhaul of Orthodoxy in Tokugawa Japan and the Soviet Union -- 6. The Next Century -- Appendix 1. The Transformation of Economic Ideas -- Appendix 2. Analysis of Presidential Discourse -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501707322 9783110667493 |
DOI: | 10.7591/9781501707322 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jeffrey W. Legro. |