Gateway to Think Tanks
来源类型 | Article |
规范类型 | 评论 |
Beyond great forces | |
Kenneth Pollack; Daniel Byman | |
发表日期 | 2019-10-16 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | History used to be told as the story of great men. Julius Caesar, Frederick the Great, George Washington, Napoléon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong—individual leaders, both famous and infamous, were thought to drive events. But then it became fashionable to tell the same stories in terms of broader structural forces: raw calculations of national power, economic interdependence, or ideological waves. Leaders came to be seen as just vehicles for other, more important factors, their personalities and predilections essentially irrelevant. What mattered was not great men or women but great forces. In his 1959 classic, Man, the State, and War, the scholar Kenneth Waltz made the case for this new approach. He argued that focusing on individual leaders or human nature more broadly offered little purchase when it came to understanding global politics. Instead, one should look at the framework of the international system and the distribution of power across it. In the midst of the Cold War, Waltz was contending that it mattered little whether Dwight Eisenhower or Adlai Stevenson occupied the White House, or Joseph Stalin or Nikita Khrushchev the Kremlin. The United States and the Soviet Union would pursue the same interests, seek the same allies, and otherwise be forced by the pressure of Cold War competition to act in a certain way. Continue reading in Foreign Affairs. |
主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy |
标签 | leadership ; realism |
URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/beyond-great-forces/ |
来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/266389 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kenneth Pollack,Daniel Byman. Beyond great forces. 2019. |
条目包含的文件 | 条目无相关文件。 |
个性服务 |
推荐该条目 |
保存到收藏夹 |
导出为Endnote文件 |
谷歌学术 |
谷歌学术中相似的文章 |
[Kenneth Pollack]的文章 |
[Daniel Byman]的文章 |
百度学术 |
百度学术中相似的文章 |
[Kenneth Pollack]的文章 |
[Daniel Byman]的文章 |
必应学术 |
必应学术中相似的文章 |
[Kenneth Pollack]的文章 |
[Daniel Byman]的文章 |
相关权益政策 |
暂无数据 |
收藏/分享 |
除非特别说明,本系统中所有内容都受版权保护,并保留所有权利。