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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey Legro |
ISBN: | 0801442729 0801473837 9780801442728 9780801473838 |
OCLC Number: | 58976002 |
Description: | xii, 253 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Great power ideas and change -- Explaining change and continuity -- The ebb and flow of American internationalism -- Germany, from outsider to insider -- Overhaul of orthodoxy in Tokugawa Japan and the Soviet Union -- The next century -- Appendix 1: The transformation of economic ideas -- Appendix 2: Analysis of presidential foreign policy. |
Series Title: | Cornell studies in security affairs. |
Responsibility: | Jeffrey W. Legro. |
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"Rethinking the World is sure to stir up controversy. No book that reinterprets some of the most important events in world history, offers an overarching argument for all of them, and calls both realism and liberalism into question can do otherwise. One of the hallmarks of this book is caution. Legro is even-handed in his evaluation of the evidence, cognizant of the methodological problems that he faces, and reticent about claiming too much for the role of ideas. In fact, the argument is a synthetic one in which ideas, power, and domestic politics all have a place. One of Legro's key contributions is an account of how ideas, power, and domestic politics combine in explicit and predictable ways to generate outcomes." * International Studies Review * "Legro makes a compelling case that strategic beliefs cannot be reduced to strategic circumstance. He ends by reflecting on the future of the Bush 'revolution' and argues that, absent further terrorist attacks, U.S. foreign policy is likely to tack back to the post-World War II mainstream." * Foreign Affairs * Read more...


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