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Zusatztext The book provides a useful way of examining foreign policy across countries. ... Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Henry Nau is Professor of Political Science, George Washington University, and author of The Myth of America's Decline (Oxford UP). Deepa Ollapally is Associate Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University, and author of The Politics of Extremism in South Asia (Cambridge UP) Klappentext Worldviews of Aspiring Powers provides a serious study of the domestic foreign policy debates in five world powers who have gained more influence as the US's has waned: China, Japan, India, Russia and Iran. Featuring a leading regional scholar for each essay, each essay identifies the most important domestic schools of thought¿nationalists, realists, globalists, idealists/exceptionalists¿and connects them to the historical and institutional sources thatfuel each nation's foreign policy experience. While scholars have applied this approach to US foreign policy, this book is the first to track the competing schools of foreign policy thought within five of the world's most important rising powers. Concise and systematic, This book will serve as both anessential resource for foreign policy scholars trying to understand international power transitions and as a text for courses that focus on the same. Zusammenfassung Worldviews of Aspiring Powers provides a serious study of the domestic foreign policy debates in five world powers who have gained more influence as the US's has waned: China, Japan, India, Russia and Iran. Featuring a leading regional scholar for each essay, each essay identifies the most important domestic schools of thought--nationalists, realists, globalists, idealists/exceptionalists--and connects them to the historical and institutional sources that fuel each nation's foreign policy experience. While scholars have applied this approach to US foreign policy, this book is the first to track the competing schools of foreign policy thought within five of the world's most important rising powers. Concise and systematic, Worldviews of Aspiring Powers will serve as both an essential resource for foreign policy scholars trying to understand international power transitions and as a text for courses that focus on the same. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Domestic Voices of Aspiring Powers Henry R. Nau 2. China: The Conflicted Rising Power David Shambaugh and Ren Xiao 3. India: Foreign Policy Perspectives of an Ambiguous Power Deepa Ollapally and Rajesh Rajapopalan 4. Iran's Post-Revolution Foreign Policy Puzzle Farideh Farhi and Saideh Lotfian 5. Hugging and Hedging: Japanese Grand Strategy in the 21st Century Narushige Michishita and Richard J. Samuels 6. Russia's Contested National Identity and Foreign Policy Andrew Kutchins and Igor Zevelev 7. Conclusion: Realists, Nationalists and Globalists and the Nature of Contemporary Rising Powers Deepa Ollapally and Nikola Mirilovic ...
