The US-led alliances in the Asia-Pacific
Hedge against potential threats or an undesirable multilateral security order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12207328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jae Jeok Park (Korea Institute for National Unification, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-158 |
| Publication date | 2011-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Pacific Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-2748 • E-ISSN: 1470-1332 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09512748.2011.560957 |
| OpenAlex | W2167518057 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 34 |
The ‘hub-and-spoke’ alliance structure led by the United States was – and remains – a major feature of security politics in the Asia-Pacific. This article links its ‘general interests’ with the larger issue of the Asia-Pacific's evolving multilateral regional order. After reviewing the concept of ‘hedging’, the first section problematises the literature that treats the US-led alliances which constitute the hub-and-spoke system mainly as instruments for the competitive side of a hedging strategy. The second section observes that they go beyond being instruments of threat response to becoming a more complicated network of regional multilateral order-maintenance and order-building. The third section claims that the United States and its regional allies have been utilising the hub-and-spoke alliance structure as a hedge against an undesirable multilateral order emerging in the region. The fourth section examines those arguments with reference to the East Asia Summit (EAS) and the Six Party Talks. The article concludes with some thoughts about what these findings mean for the future direction of the hub-and-spoke alliance structure in the Asia-Pacific
Alliance · Asia pacific · Business · China · East Asia · Economics · Economy · Geography · Hedge · International trade · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Summit · Finance · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security
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| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |