Jeffrey W. Legro is Randolph P. Compton Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order and coeditor of In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11, both from Cornell.
In this impressive book, Legro argues that major strategic turning
points are not simply the result of shifts in power and interests;
they also involve the interplay of 'collective ideas' within states
about how to relate to the outside world.... Legro reflects on the
future on 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*
Legro's careful, insightful, and intriguing study shows that
military preferences have a powerful influence on state policy
during war. Whose preferences matter for state policy, and the
origins of those preferences, remain the challenges presented by
this important book.
*American Political Science Review*
This is a well-written and extensively researched analysis of three
kinds of restraints observed for part or all of World War II. These
restraints concerned the use of submarines against merchantmen, the
bombing of cities from the air, and (more enduringly) the use of
poison gas. Such restraints have not been much remembered or
analyzed, as survivors and scholars alike tend to remember World
War II as the most unrestrained martial conflict in all
history.
*Society*
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