Time for a Change? Post-Cold War U.S. Grand Strategy in Northeast Asia

Download or read book Time for a Change? Post-Cold War U.S. Grand Strategy in Northeast Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite dramatic changes in the Northeast Asian security environment, America's regional grand strategy has continued to be guided by inertia. This thesis contends that a multipolar, balance of power system is emerging in Northeast Asia, and that the appropriate U.S. response is to adopt a grand strategy of selective engagement. The first half of this thesis focuses on U.S. security interests, the Northeast Asian threat environment, and the shortcomings of post-Cold War U.S. policies. The second half describes the diplomatic, military and economic attributes of a selective engagement grand strategy. Recognizing that the age of geopolitics has not yet ended in Northeast Asia, U.S. diplomacy would endeavor to maintain equilibrium and prevent the rise of a regional hegemony by casting the United States in the role of balancer, grand facilitator, and honest broker. Militarily, a selective engagement approach would capitalize on the strengths of a maritime grand strategy to provide more flexibility at a lower cost. Finally, a grand strategy of selective engagement would acknowledge the centrality of economics to national security by linking economic policies directly to political and military strategy. (RWJ).