How do America's democratic allies perceive and respond to a relative decline in US power and influence and the simultaneous rise of China? Using the case-studies of Europe, the UK, Australia, Canada, Japan and South East Asian countries, this book offers a broad assessment of the perceptions of threat and the strategies used by these allies to cope with the relative decline of America's hegemonic power, the rise of China and the transforming world order. In answering these central questions, contributors focus on two complementary analytical approaches. The first examines the perceptions of systemic changes by America's allies: how are US allies framing this issue and what kind of political discourse is emerging with regards to it? The second approach focuses on the concrete foreign policy and defence strategies put forward by these allies. The book explores the extent to which US allies are willing to support US hegemony and considers the democratic allies' understanding of the international structure, their relations to the United States, and their own aspirations in this changing world order. This book will be of interest to general readers as well as scholars and students of US foreign policy, foreign policy analysis and International Relations.

How do America's democratic allies perceive and respond to a relative decline in US power and influence and the simultaneous rise of China? Using the case-studies of Europe, the UK, Australia, Canada, Japan and South East Asian countries, this book offers a broad assessment of the perceptions of threat and the strategies used by these allies to cope with the relative decline of America's hegemonic power, the rise of China and the transforming world order. In answering these central questions, contributors focus on two complementary analytical approaches. The first examines the perceptions of systemic changes by America's allies: how are US allies framing this issue and what kind of political discourse is emerging with regards to it? The second approach focuses on the concrete foreign policy and defence strategies put forward by these allies. The book explores the extent to which US allies are willing to support US hegemony and considers the democratic allies' understanding of the international structure, their relations to the United States, and their own aspirations in this changing world order. This book will be of interest to general readers as well as scholars and students of US foreign policy, foreign policy analysis and International Relations.

This book presents the evolution of the field of foreign policy analysis and explains the theories that have structured research in this area over the last 50 years. It provides the essentials of emerging theoretical trends, data and methodological pitfalls and major case-studies and is designed to be a key entry point for graduate students, upper-level undergraduates and scholars into the discipline. The volume features an eclectic panorama of different conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to foreign political analysis, focusing on different models of analysis such as two-level game analysis, bureaucratic politics, strategic culture, cybernetics, poliheuristic analysis, cognitive mapping, gender studies, groupthink and the systemic sources of foreign policy. The authors also clarify conceptual notions such as doctrines, ideologies and national interest, through the lenses of foreign policy analysis.

The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. US
policy makers stopped thinking about how they could better integrate
the economies of Mexico, Canada, and the United States and instead
focused on security and sovereignty.

Security experts and scholars tend to view the developments that
followed 9/11 within a bilateral framework. "Game Changer"
broadens the canvas by asking - how has Washington's desire
to keep the Canada-US and Mexico-US borders closed to security threats
but open to the movement of people and goods influenced life in Canada
and Mexico and relations among the three countries? Experts from across
North America draw on international relations theory to examine and
explain not only developments in key security areas such as border
control and the military-industrial sector but also how policy makers
can reconcile the need for greater regional cooperation when it comes
to security with the desire to maintain national autonomy in other
areas of life.

By adopting a truly North American, or trilateral, framework, this
challenging and authoritative volume suggests new approaches to
security in the post-9/11 world.

Jonathan Paquin is an associate professor of
political science at Universite Laval.

Patrick James is Dornsife Dean's Professor of
International Relations at the University of Southern California.

Donald E. Abelson, Louis Belanger, Yan Cimon, Stephen Clarkson,
Charles F. Doran, David G. Haglund, Frank P. Harvey, Athanasios
Hristoulas, Philippe Lagasse, Justin Massie, Mark Paradis, Isabelle
Vagnoux

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