Rethinking the World Great Power Strategies and International Order【電子書籍】[ Jeffrey W. Legro ]

＜p＞Stunning shifts in the worldviews of states mark the modern history of international affairs: how do societies think aboutーand rethinkー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ーand in other cases their equally surprising absence?＜/p＞ ＜p＞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, ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る