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9780300253023 (köites) |
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1. Intentions pessimism. 2. Against optimism. 3. The Bismarck era. 4. The great rapprochement. 5. The early interwar period. 6. The end of the Cold war. 7. On the United States and China |
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"It is one of the great unexamined assumptions of the realist school of foreign policy that nations cannot know each others' intentions. Scholars outside the realist school, such as Robert Jervis, Michael Doyle or Francis Fukuyama, believe that intentions are knowable at least some of the time. Besides being important for the theory of international relations, this question has huge practical significance: whether the United States and China can find some mutual accommodation in the western Pacific, for instance, depends a great deal on how well each side thinks it knows what the other really plans to do. But no one has rigorously studied the issue. In The Road to Hell, IR scholar Sebastian Rosato looks at four cases in which theorists believe rival nations had faith in each other's benign intentions-- Germany and Russia in the Bismarck era (1871-90); Britain and the United States during the great rapprochement (1895-1905); France and Germany, and Japan and the United States in the early interwar period (1919-32); and the Soviet Union and the United States at the end of the Cold War (1985-90)-and shows that in each case, neither nation's leaders had much confidence in the other's, and they constantly pursued heightened security. When any nation lessened its security stance, it was only because it had grown too weak to keep pace with its rival. Rosato concludes with a chapter on what his findings mean for the most important rivalry in the world today, that between the U.S. and China. As the first exercise in testing one of IR's key theoretical assumptions against historical reality, The Road to Hell will make a significant-and controversial-impact on international relations scholarship"-- Provided by publisher |
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suurriiklik poliitika
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jõudude tasakaal
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rahvusvahelised suhted
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20. sajand
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21. sajandi 1. pool
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