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Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2006

John A. Vasquez
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Extract

Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order. By Jeffrey W. Legro. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 272p. $39.95.

When do states (decision makers and their publics) rethink their world? Why and how does this happen? Change in ideas, shifts in paradigms, the overthrow of ruling ideologies have long been the focus of various theoretical perspectives. Here these questions are framed and analyzed through constructivist lenses.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Copyright
2006 American Political Science Association

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