Jeffrey W Legro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1130706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey W Legro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey W |
| FAMILY NAME | Legro |
| SIGNATURE | LEGRO J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 535 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order
Stunning shifts in the worldviews of states mark the modern history of international affairs: how do societies think about—and rethink—international order and security? Japan's "opening," German conquest, American internationalism, Maoist independence, and Gorbachev's "new thinking" molded international conflict and cooperation in their eras. How do we explain such momentous changes in foreign policy—and in other cases their equally surprising ab…
Sell unipolarity? The future of an overvalued concept
For at least the past thirty years, scholarship on international relations has been bewitched by a simple proposition: the polarity of the international system is a central cause of great power strategies and politics. The number of “poles” (dominant countries) in the system is like an invisible fence that shapes states as if they were dogs with electronic collars or a Skinner box that conditions national “rats.” States can choose to ignore the f…
International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity
The end of the Cold War and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a new unipolar international system that presented fresh challenges to international relations theory. Since the Enlightenment, scholars have speculated that patterns of cooperation and conflict might be systematically related to the manner in which power is distributed among states. Most of what we know about this relationship, however, is based on European experi…
The mix that makes unipolarity: Hegemonic purpose and international constraints
The nature of a global arena dominated by one great power remains a critical subject for understanding international relations. Brooks and Wohlforth's recent book makes an important contribution by arguing that unipolarity poses few constraints to the hegemon and that the United States today should pursue a policy of primacy. The puzzle is that the United States has mostly resisted a primacy policy since becoming the sole superpower, and when it …
The Plasticity of Identity under Anarchy
Why do national identities usually endure but sometimes radically change? Much of the time, identity socializes or constrains leaders to act in patterned ways. Occasionally, however, leaders are able to dramatically alter those self-images. This article offers a general argument for varying identity plasticity. It brings together organizational theory and social theory to demonstrate how ideas about means to goals can in certain circumstances cha…
To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine
What China Will Want: The Future Intentions of a Rising Power
China's national power is growing rapidly, but what China will do with its newfound capabilities remains an issue of contentious debate among scholars and policymakers. At the heart of the problem is the difficulty of divining future intentions. Two arguments have dominated the debate. One focuses on power and likely Chinese revisionism. The other highlights China's growing interdependence and likely future satisfaction. Both are problematic in t…
Faux Realism
Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm? (Or Was Anybody Ever a Realist?)
July 01 2000 Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm? (Or Was Anybody Ever a Realist?) Peter D. Feaver, Peter D. Feaver Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Gunther Hellmann, Gunther Hellmann Professor of Political Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Randall L. Schwel…
Whence American Internationalism
One of the most important puzzles of twentieth-century international relations is why the American conception of security vis-à-vis the European Powers shifted from unilateralism to internationalism after World War II but not after World War I. In this article I document that this shift was measurably one of collective ideas and explain the transformation. Scholarship on the sea change in American global thinking has been hampered by the lack of …
The Transformation of Policy Ideas
A wave of recent scholarship, embracing both rational choice and cultural approaches, highlights the importance of collective ideas in explaining politics. What this work has not adequately addressed, however, is why collective ideas sometimes radically change. Scholars typically attribute ideational change ad hoc to creative entrepreneurial agents or to shock. But these solutions fail to account for why some entrepreneurs and not others are succ…
Is Anybody Still a Realist
October 01 1999 Is Anybody Still a Realist? Jeffrey W. Legro, Jeffrey W. Legro Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Andrew Moravcsik Andrew Moravcsik Professor of Government, Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jeffrey W. Legro Associate Professor of Governme…
Cooperation under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint during World War II
Which norms matter? Revisiting the “failure” of internationalism
International relations theorists have in recent years shown an interest in international norms and rules not equaled since the interwar period. This contemporary literature is, of course, quite different—i.e., better—than that of the 1920s and 1930s: it has greater intellectual depth, empirical backing, and explanatory power. The promise of this research, bolstered by the opportunities of the post–cold war era, is that norms encouraging free tra…
Culture and Preferences in the International Cooperation Two-Step
Rational choice analyses of international cooperation have slighted the effect of state preference formation and the influence of cultural forces in that process. This article addresses these gaps by developing an explanation that specifies howorganizational culturesof bureaucracies shape state aims and international outcomes. This approach is evaluated in a set of least likely cases-decisions on the use of force in war-where the conventional wis…
Cooperation under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint during World War II
Why do nations cooperate even as they try to destroy each other? Jeffrey Legro explores this question in the context of World War II, the "total" war that in fact wasn't. During the war, combatant states attempted to sustain agreements limiting the use of three forms of combat considered barbarous—submarine attacks against civilian ships, strategic bombing of civilian targets, and chemical warfare. Looking at how these restraints worked or failed…
Military Culture and Inadvertent Escalation in World War II
The Military Meaning of the New Soviet Doctrine
Constraining Ground Force Exercises of Nato and the Warsaw Pact
Soviet crisis decision‐making and the Gorbachev reforms
(1989). Soviet crisis decision‐making and the Gorbachev reforms. Survival: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 339-358
Which norms matter? Revisiting the “failure” of internationalism
International relations theorists have in recent years shown an interest in international norms and rules not equaled since the interwar period. This contemporary literature is, of course, quite different—i.e., better—than that of the 1920s and 1930s: it has greater intellectual depth, empirical backing, and explanatory power. The promise of this research, bolstered by the opportunities of the post–cold war era, is that norms encouraging free tra…
The Transformation of Policy Ideas
A wave of recent scholarship, embracing both rational choice and cultural approaches, highlights the importance of collective ideas in explaining politics. What this work has not adequately addressed, however, is why collective ideas sometimes radically change. Scholars typically attribute ideational change ad hoc to creative entrepreneurial agents or to shock. But these solutions fail to account for why some entrepreneurs and not others are succ…
Is Anybody Still a Realist
October 01 1999 Is Anybody Still a Realist? Jeffrey W. Legro, Jeffrey W. Legro Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Andrew Moravcsik Andrew Moravcsik Professor of Government, Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jeffrey W. Legro Associate Professor of Governme…
Culture and Preferences in the International Cooperation Two-Step
Rational choice analyses of international cooperation have slighted the effect of state preference formation and the influence of cultural forces in that process. This article addresses these gaps by developing an explanation that specifies howorganizational culturesof bureaucracies shape state aims and international outcomes. This approach is evaluated in a set of least likely cases-decisions on the use of force in war-where the conventional wis…
What China Will Want: The Future Intentions of a Rising Power
China's national power is growing rapidly, but what China will do with its newfound capabilities remains an issue of contentious debate among scholars and policymakers. At the heart of the problem is the difficulty of divining future intentions. Two arguments have dominated the debate. One focuses on power and likely Chinese revisionism. The other highlights China's growing interdependence and likely future satisfaction. Both are problematic in t…
Whence American Internationalism
One of the most important puzzles of twentieth-century international relations is why the American conception of security vis-à-vis the European Powers shifted from unilateralism to internationalism after World War II but not after World War I. In this article I document that this shift was measurably one of collective ideas and explain the transformation. Scholarship on the sea change in American global thinking has been hampered by the lack of …
Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order
Stunning shifts in the worldviews of states mark the modern history of international affairs: how do societies think about—and rethink—international order and security? Japan's "opening," German conquest, American internationalism, Maoist independence, and Gorbachev's "new thinking" molded international conflict and cooperation in their eras. How do we explain such momentous changes in foreign policy—and in other cases their equally surprising ab…
Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm? (Or Was Anybody Ever a Realist?)
July 01 2000 Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm? (Or Was Anybody Ever a Realist?) Peter D. Feaver, Peter D. Feaver Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Gunther Hellmann, Gunther Hellmann Professor of Political Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Randall L. Schwel…
Military Culture and Inadvertent Escalation in World War II
Constraining Ground Force Exercises of Nato and the Warsaw Pact
The Plasticity of Identity under Anarchy
Why do national identities usually endure but sometimes radically change? Much of the time, identity socializes or constrains leaders to act in patterned ways. Occasionally, however, leaders are able to dramatically alter those self-images. This article offers a general argument for varying identity plasticity. It brings together organizational theory and social theory to demonstrate how ideas about means to goals can in certain circumstances cha…
Cooperation under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint during World War II
Why do nations cooperate even as they try to destroy each other? Jeffrey Legro explores this question in the context of World War II, the "total" war that in fact wasn't. During the war, combatant states attempted to sustain agreements limiting the use of three forms of combat considered barbarous—submarine attacks against civilian ships, strategic bombing of civilian targets, and chemical warfare. Looking at how these restraints worked or failed…
Faux Realism
The Military Meaning of the New Soviet Doctrine
Constraining Ground Force Exercises of Nato and the Warsaw Pact
Soviet crisis decision‐making and the Gorbachev reforms
(1989). Soviet crisis decision‐making and the Gorbachev reforms. Survival: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 339-358
Military Culture and Inadvertent Escalation in World War II
Cooperation under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint during World War II
Why do nations cooperate even as they try to destroy each other? Jeffrey Legro explores this question in the context of World War II, the "total" war that in fact wasn't. During the war, combatant states attempted to sustain agreements limiting the use of three forms of combat considered barbarous—submarine attacks against civilian ships, strategic bombing of civilian targets, and chemical warfare. Looking at how these restraints worked or failed…
Culture and Preferences in the International Cooperation Two-Step
Rational choice analyses of international cooperation have slighted the effect of state preference formation and the influence of cultural forces in that process. This article addresses these gaps by developing an explanation that specifies howorganizational culturesof bureaucracies shape state aims and international outcomes. This approach is evaluated in a set of least likely cases-decisions on the use of force in war-where the conventional wis…
Cooperation under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint during World War II
Which norms matter? Revisiting the “failure” of internationalism
International relations theorists have in recent years shown an interest in international norms and rules not equaled since the interwar period. This contemporary literature is, of course, quite different—i.e., better—than that of the 1920s and 1930s: it has greater intellectual depth, empirical backing, and explanatory power. The promise of this research, bolstered by the opportunities of the post–cold war era, is that norms encouraging free tra…
Is Anybody Still a Realist
October 01 1999 Is Anybody Still a Realist? Jeffrey W. Legro, Jeffrey W. Legro Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Andrew Moravcsik Andrew Moravcsik Professor of Government, Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jeffrey W. Legro Associate Professor of Governme…
Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm? (Or Was Anybody Ever a Realist?)
July 01 2000 Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm? (Or Was Anybody Ever a Realist?) Peter D. Feaver, Peter D. Feaver Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Gunther Hellmann, Gunther Hellmann Professor of Political Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Randall L. Schwel…
Whence American Internationalism
One of the most important puzzles of twentieth-century international relations is why the American conception of security vis-à-vis the European Powers shifted from unilateralism to internationalism after World War II but not after World War I. In this article I document that this shift was measurably one of collective ideas and explain the transformation. Scholarship on the sea change in American global thinking has been hampered by the lack of …
The Transformation of Policy Ideas
A wave of recent scholarship, embracing both rational choice and cultural approaches, highlights the importance of collective ideas in explaining politics. What this work has not adequately addressed, however, is why collective ideas sometimes radically change. Scholars typically attribute ideational change ad hoc to creative entrepreneurial agents or to shock. But these solutions fail to account for why some entrepreneurs and not others are succ…
Faux Realism
What China Will Want: The Future Intentions of a Rising Power
China's national power is growing rapidly, but what China will do with its newfound capabilities remains an issue of contentious debate among scholars and policymakers. At the heart of the problem is the difficulty of divining future intentions. Two arguments have dominated the debate. One focuses on power and likely Chinese revisionism. The other highlights China's growing interdependence and likely future satisfaction. Both are problematic in t…
To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine
The Plasticity of Identity under Anarchy
Why do national identities usually endure but sometimes radically change? Much of the time, identity socializes or constrains leaders to act in patterned ways. Occasionally, however, leaders are able to dramatically alter those self-images. This article offers a general argument for varying identity plasticity. It brings together organizational theory and social theory to demonstrate how ideas about means to goals can in certain circumstances cha…
Sell unipolarity? The future of an overvalued concept
For at least the past thirty years, scholarship on international relations has been bewitched by a simple proposition: the polarity of the international system is a central cause of great power strategies and politics. The number of “poles” (dominant countries) in the system is like an invisible fence that shapes states as if they were dogs with electronic collars or a Skinner box that conditions national “rats.” States can choose to ignore the f…
International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity
The end of the Cold War and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a new unipolar international system that presented fresh challenges to international relations theory. Since the Enlightenment, scholars have speculated that patterns of cooperation and conflict might be systematically related to the manner in which power is distributed among states. Most of what we know about this relationship, however, is based on European experi…
The mix that makes unipolarity: Hegemonic purpose and international constraints
The nature of a global arena dominated by one great power remains a critical subject for understanding international relations. Brooks and Wohlforth's recent book makes an important contribution by arguing that unipolarity poses few constraints to the hegemon and that the United States today should pursue a policy of primacy. The puzzle is that the United States has mostly resisted a primacy policy since becoming the sole superpower, and when it …
Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order
Stunning shifts in the worldviews of states mark the modern history of international affairs: how do societies think about—and rethink—international order and security? Japan's "opening," German conquest, American internationalism, Maoist independence, and Gorbachev's "new thinking" molded international conflict and cooperation in their eras. How do we explain such momentous changes in foreign policy—and in other cases their equally surprising ab…
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