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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554260503321

Autore

Rosato Sebastian <1972->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2021

ISBN

0-300-25868-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Yale scholarship online

Disciplina

327.112

Soggetti

Balance of power

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.