Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International

Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
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Stunning shifts in the worldviews of states mark the modern history of international affairs: how do societies think aboutâ€•and rethinkâ€•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 policyâ€•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.
Country USA
Brand Cornell University Press
Manufacturer Cornell University Press
Binding Paperback
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EANs 9780801473838
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Country	USA
Brand	Cornell University Press
Manufacturer	Cornell University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780801473838
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)