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This text prepares the ground - both for US policy makers and
America's allies in Asia - for the time in the not too distant
future when the United States will no longer be in a position to
guarantee the stability of the Asia-Pacific region by its
unilateral actions and forward military presence. Arguing that the
US-dominated system of Asian security from the Cold war era needs a
fundamental transformation over the next ten years, the authors
recommend a number of steps the US can take to help develop a
moderate multipolar balance of power in Asia.
This monograph is an audit of the policies pursued by the Obama
Administration in support of the so-called "pivot to Asia." After
explaining why U.S. President Barack Obama chose to accord top
priority to the Indo-Asia-Pacific (IAP) region, Dr. Douglas T.
Stuart discusses the diplomatic, information, military, and
economic instruments of power, which were available to Washington
to accomplish its goals. Dr. Stuart notes that the United States
faced some unique problems in its efforts to rely upon diplomacy,
public information, and economics to gain influence in the region.
Under these circumstances, Washington drew upon its substantial
regional military presence as the foundation for its pivot
campaign. Dr. Stuart discusses both the strengths and weaknesses of
the so-called San Francisco network of U.S.-sponsored security
relationships with key regional governments.
With the end of the Cold War, a popular parlor game in foreign
ministries, think tanks, and academia has been to develop a theory
of international relations that best explains the new international
order. Although there is widespread agreement that the United
States is the world's most powerful country in military, economic,
and diplomatic terms, and is likely to remain so for the
foreseeable future, there is little agreement as to how the rest of
the world will react to America's lead. Concepts such as
"balancing," "bandwagoning," "buck-passing," and "free riding," to
name just a few, have been advanced and debated. And although none
presents a unified field theory, each explains some aspect of
international relations. Theory has an even more difficult time
explaining the relationship between the United States and the
United Kingdom (UK), especially its remarkable endurance over the
past 6 decades. The U.S.-UK partnership flourished during World War
II, deepened during the long twilight struggle...
The idea for this volume grew out of a previous collaboration
between Jeffrey McCausland and Douglas Stuart. Arguing that the
bilateral relationship between the United States and the United
Kingdom was both underappreciated and understudied, they organized
a series of conferences in 2005 which brought together a group of
well-known American and British academics, journalists, and
policymakers to discuss political, military, and economic aspects
of the "special relationship." The conference proceedings,
published by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War
College under the title U.S.-UK Relations at the Start of the 21st
Century, proved to be extremely popular- requiring a second
printing and generating followon public discussions on both sides
of the Atlantic.1 Conversation during these public events tended to
focus on one basic question and a couple of ancillary questions:
Was the U.S.-UK relationship unique? If so, in what respects? And
why?
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