Asia Pacific Countries and the Us Rebalancing Strategy

ISBN-13: 9781137587978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 279 str.

David W. F. Huang

Opis

This book examines the success of the US rebalancing (or pivot) strategy towards Asia, placing the US pivot in a historical context while highlighting its policy content and management dilemmas. In 2011, President Barack Obama laid out the framework for a strategic pivot of US policy towards the Asia Pacific region.

Spis treści

Part I: Challenges and Management of US Rebalancing Strategy 

Chapter 1: The Obama “Pivot” to Asia in a Historical Context of American Hegemony

Chapter 2: Challenges to the US rebalance to Asia

Chapter 3: Balancing Signals in the US Rebalancing Strategy to Asia 

Part II: Regional Responses

Chapter 4: The Chinese Response to the U.S. Rebalancing Strategy: Sino-U.S. Relations and Washington’s Pivot to Asia

Chapter 5: Chinese Response to Obama’s Rebalancing to Asia Strategy

Chapter 6: Japan’s “Proactive Contribution” and the U.S. Rebalancing Policy

Chapter 7: The U.S. Strategic Rebalance and South Korea’s Dilemma: Uncertain Future and Force Decisions

Chapter 8: ASEAN-Related Regional Arrangements, China and the U.S. Rebalancing

Chapter 9: America’s Asia-Pacific Rebalance and the Hazards of Hedging: A Review of Evidence from Southeast Asia

Chapter 10: U.S. Rebalancing Strategy and Australia’s Response: Business as Usual

Chapter 11: India’s Response to U.S. Rebalancing Strategy

Part III: Taiwan and Maritime Disputes in East and South China Seas

Chapter 12: From Washington with Love? Taiwan’s Perspective on the U.S. Rebalance to Asia

Chapter 13: U.S. Rebalancing Strategy and Taiwan’s Responses

Chapter 14: South China Sea Disputes: Taiwan’s Opportunities and Challenges

Chapter 15: The U.S. Commitment to Asia’s Stability and Japan’s Readiness to Rely on Its Security Provision

O autorze

David W.F. Huang is an Associate Research Fellow of IEAS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and an Associate Professor of GIND, National Taiwan University. From 2004 to 2008, he served in the Taiwan Government to deal with its relationship with China and USA. His current research interests include US-China-Taiwan relations and Comparative Regionalism. 

Blurb

This book examines the success of the US rebalancing (or pivot) strategy towards Asia, placing the US pivot in a historical context while highlighting its policy content and management dilemmas. Further, the contributors discuss the challenges and opportunities that each regional state confronts in responding to the US rebalancing strategy. 

In 2011, President Barack Obama laid out the framework for a strategic pivot of US policy towards the Asia Pacific region. Writers in this volume focus specifically on Asian perception of the strategy. Among the topics they explore are: China’s desire to be seen as equal to the US while maintaining foreign policy initiatives independent of the US strategic rebalance; the strengthening of Japan’s alliance with the US through its security policies; the use of US-China competition by South Korea to negotiate its influence in the region; and Australia’s embrace of the strategy as a result of foreign direct investment that provides economic benefits to the country.