Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World

Harper, Kyle

ISBN 10: 0674660218 / ISBN 13: 9780674660212

Editore: Harvard University Press, 2016

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Shaper Nations provides perspectives on the national strategies of eight countries that are shaping global politics in the twenty-first century. The volume's authors offer a unique viewpoint: they live and work primarily in the country about which they write, bringing an insider's feel for national debates and politics. Editor(s): Hitchcock, William I.; Leffler, Melvyn P.; Legro, Jeffrey W. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JPA; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. . . 2016. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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• Titolo: Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0674660218
• ISBN 13: 9780674660212
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Shaper Nations provides illuminating perspectives on the national strategies of eight emerging and established countries that are shaping global politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The volume’s authors offer a unique viewpoint: they live and work primarily in the country about which they write, bringing an insider’s feel for national debates and politics.

The conventional wisdom on national strategy suggests that these states have clear central authority, coherently connect means to ends, and focus on their geopolitical environment. These essays suggest a different conclusion. In seven key countries—Brazil, China, Germany, India, Israel, Russia, and Turkey—strategy is dominated by nonstate threats, domestic politics, the distorting effect of history and national identity, economic development concerns, and the sheer difficulty, in the face of many powerful internal and external constraints, of pursuing an effective national strategy.

The shapers represent a new trend in the international arena with important consequences. Among them is a more uncertain world in which countries concentrate on their own development rather than on shared problems that might divert precious resources, and attend more to regional than to global order. In responding to these shaper states, the United States must understand the sources of their national strategies in determining its own role on the global stage.

Informazioni sull?autore

William I. Hitchcock is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Melvyn P. Leffler is Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Jeffrey W. Legro is Vice Provost for Global Affairs and Randolph P. Compton Professor in the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.