American Grand Strategy in the Indo Pacific: Plus ça change?

IF 1.4 4区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Pacific Affairs Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI:10.5509/2019924741

T. Wilkins

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Abstract

In an era of heightened great power competition, debates about American grand strategy in the Indo-Pacific region have returned to the fore. This review essay looks at three recent volumes that directly address such debates. After introducing the concept of grand strategy, Part I reviews each of the books individually in sequence, outlining their scope, contents, and contributions. Part II then integrates the contributions of each of the volumes into a broader discussion relating to four pertinent issues: American perspectives on "Asia"; international relations (IR) theory; American strategic culture; and the rise of China, before concluding. The books under review are to differing degrees orientated toward one of the core IR theory paradigms: realism (Green), liberalism (Campbell), and constructivism/ critical approaches (Kang). As such, read together, they contribute to a multi-faceted theoretical understanding of US grand strategy in the Indo Pacific that will be of significant value to both scholars and practitioners.

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美国在印太地区的大战略：加上变化？

在一个大国竞争加剧的时代，关于美国在印太地区大战略的辩论又重新浮出水面。这篇评论文章着眼于最近三卷直接涉及此类争论的文章。在介绍了大战略的概念之后，第一部分按顺序逐一回顾了每本书，概述了它们的范围、内容和贡献。然后，第二部分将每一卷的贡献纳入与四个相关问题有关的更广泛的讨论中：美国对“亚洲”的看法；国际关系理论；美国战略文化；以及中国的崛起。正在审查的书籍在不同程度上倾向于一种核心的IR理论范式：现实主义（Green）、自由主义（Campbell）和建构主义/批判方法（Kang）。因此，共同阅读，它们有助于对美国在印太大战略的多方面理论理解，这对学者和从业者都具有重要价值。

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Pacific Affairs AREA STUDIES-

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1.60

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Pacific Affairs has, over the years, celebrated and fostered a community of scholars and people active in the life of Asia and the Pacific. It has published scholarly articles of contemporary significance on Asia and the Pacific since 1928. Its initial incarnation from 1926 to 1928 was as a newsletter for the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), but since May 1928, it has been published continuously as a quarterly under the same name. The IPR was a collaborative organization established in 1925 by leaders from several YMCA branches in the Asia Pacific, to “study the conditions of the Pacific people with a view to the improvement of their mutual relations.”