Intentions in great power politics : uncertainty and the roots of conflict / Sebastian Rosato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosato, Sebastian, 1972- author.

Series:

Yale scholarship online.

Yale scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balance of power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Sebastian Rosato is associate professor of political science and associate director of the International Security Center at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also a fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.

Summary:

Why the future of great power politics is likely to resemble its dismal past. Can great powers be confident that their peers have benign intentions? States that trust each other can live at peace; those that mistrust each other are doomed to compete for arms and allies and may even go to war. Sebastian Rosato explains that states routinely lack the kind of information they need to be convinced that their rivals mean them no harm. Even in cases that supposedly involved mutual trust - Germany and Russia in the Bismarck era; Britain and the United States during the great rapprochement; France and Germany, and Japan and the United States in the early interwar period; and the Soviet Union and United States at the end of the Cold War - the protagonists mistrusted each other and struggled for advantage.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

1 Intentions Pessimism

2 Against Optimism

3 The Bismarck Era

4 The Great Rapprochement

5 The Early Interwar Period

6 The End of the Cold War

7 On the United States and China

Notes

Index

Notes:

Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of Amasa Stone Mather of the Class of 1907, Yale College.

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-25868-2

OCLC:

1244629953