Caught in the middle? Middle powers amid U.S.-China competition
This essay provides an overview of this special issue, which seeks to better understand middle-power thinking and strategies in coping with the escalating competition between the U.S. and China. main argument Competition is now the primary format of U.S.-China relations, spanning key dimensions of i...
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| description | This essay provides an overview of this special issue, which seeks to better understand middle-power thinking and strategies in coping with the escalating competition between the U.S. and China. main argument Competition is now the primary format of U.S.-China relations, spanning key dimensions of international politics. The pressures radiating from this structural shift have led Indo-Pacific states to calibrate their policies to this new geostrategic circumstance. This special issue focuses on the responses of a category of regional states understood as middle powers. How have regional middle powers adapted to the intensifying U.S.-China rivalry? What are the considerations and drivers that inform their coping strategies? To address these salient, policy-relevant questions, this special issue spotlights six Indo-Pacific middle powers—namely, Australia, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Pakistan—and unpacks their logic and ways of navigating the complexities of the Sino-U.S. rivalry. The insights derived in this issue contribute to broader policy thinking on the evolving choices of middle powers and are instructive for the strategic policies of other regional states in an era of great-power competition. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1686622023-06-18T15:43:04Z Caught in the middle? Middle powers amid U.S.-China competition Boon, Hoo Tiang Teo, Sarah S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Social sciences::Political science Indo-Pacific Middle Powers This essay provides an overview of this special issue, which seeks to better understand middle-power thinking and strategies in coping with the escalating competition between the U.S. and China. main argument Competition is now the primary format of U.S.-China relations, spanning key dimensions of international politics. The pressures radiating from this structural shift have led Indo-Pacific states to calibrate their policies to this new geostrategic circumstance. This special issue focuses on the responses of a category of regional states understood as middle powers. How have regional middle powers adapted to the intensifying U.S.-China rivalry? What are the considerations and drivers that inform their coping strategies? To address these salient, policy-relevant questions, this special issue spotlights six Indo-Pacific middle powers—namely, Australia, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Pakistan—and unpacks their logic and ways of navigating the complexities of the Sino-U.S. rivalry. The insights derived in this issue contribute to broader policy thinking on the evolving choices of middle powers and are instructive for the strategic policies of other regional states in an era of great-power competition. Published version 2023-06-13T08:46:28Z 2023-06-13T08:46:28Z 2022 Journal Article Boon, H. T. & Teo, S. (2022). Caught in the middle? Middle powers amid U.S.-China competition. Asia Policy, 17(4), 59-76. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ASP.2022.0058 1559-0968 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168662 10.1353/ASP.2022.0058 2-s2.0-85143838101 https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/49110 4 17 59 76 en Asia Policy © 2022 The National Bureau of Asian Research. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Asia Policy and is made available with permission of The National Bureau of Asian Research. application/pdf |
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| title | Caught in the middle? Middle powers amid U.S.-China competition |
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| title_short | Caught in the middle? Middle powers amid U.S.-China competition |
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