TY  - BOOK
AU  - Legro,Jeffrey W.
TI  - Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order 
T2  - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
SN  - 9781501707322
U1  - 327.1/01 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - International organization
KW  - International relations
KW  - History
KW  - International Studies
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501707322
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501707322
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501707322/original
ER  -