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Rethinking the World - Great Power Strategies and International Order (Paperback)
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Rethinking the World - Great Power Strategies and International Order (Paperback)
Series: 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 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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