Relics of the Cold War? Perceptions and unintended consequences of alliances
Considering how alliances have long been seen as playing an important role in ensuring regional stability, this paper investigates the opposite: the relationship between alliances and instability. Specifically, it offers a theoretical framework that attempts to account for regional instability resul...
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| author | Yeong, An Qi |
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| description | Considering how alliances have long been seen as playing an important role in ensuring regional stability, this paper investigates the opposite: the relationship between alliances and instability. Specifically, it offers a theoretical framework that attempts to account for regional instability resulting from alliances by introducing mistrust and distrust as the intervening variables. Although similar, mistrust and distrust are two conceptually differentiated words. While mistrust refers to scepticism and suspicion based on intuition, distrust is a deliberate decision to not trust due to past experience. To illustrate the presence of mistrust and distrust, the paper examines China’s reactions to the U.S.’s Northeast Asian alliances with Japan and South Korea. In doing so, the paper elucidates how regional instability is an unintended consequence of alliances because of the presence of mistrust and distrust in international relations. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1689602023-07-30T15:31:51Z Relics of the Cold War? Perceptions and unintended consequences of alliances Yeong, An Qi Chen Chung-An School of Social Sciences cchongan@ntu.edu.sg Social sciences::Political science Considering how alliances have long been seen as playing an important role in ensuring regional stability, this paper investigates the opposite: the relationship between alliances and instability. Specifically, it offers a theoretical framework that attempts to account for regional instability resulting from alliances by introducing mistrust and distrust as the intervening variables. Although similar, mistrust and distrust are two conceptually differentiated words. While mistrust refers to scepticism and suspicion based on intuition, distrust is a deliberate decision to not trust due to past experience. To illustrate the presence of mistrust and distrust, the paper examines China’s reactions to the U.S.’s Northeast Asian alliances with Japan and South Korea. In doing so, the paper elucidates how regional instability is an unintended consequence of alliances because of the presence of mistrust and distrust in international relations. Bachelor of Social Sciences in Public Policy and Global Affairs 2023-07-24T02:02:54Z 2023-07-24T02:02:54Z 2023 Final Year Project (FYP) Yeong, A. Q. (2023). Relics of the Cold War? Perceptions and unintended consequences of alliances. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168960 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168960 en PPGA_GP/2022/2/10 application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Political science Yeong, An Qi Relics of the Cold War? Perceptions and unintended consequences of alliances |
| title | Relics of the Cold War? Perceptions and unintended consequences of alliances |
| title_full | Relics of the Cold War? Perceptions and unintended consequences of alliances |
| title_fullStr | Relics of the Cold War? Perceptions and unintended consequences of alliances |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relics of the Cold War? Perceptions and unintended consequences of alliances |
| title_short | Relics of the Cold War? Perceptions and unintended consequences of alliances |
| title_sort | relics of the cold war perceptions and unintended consequences of alliances |
| topic | Social sciences::Political science |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168960 |
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