The Strategic Hedging of Iran, Russia, and China

Juxtaposing Participation in the Global System with Regional Revisionism

Bibliographic Data

ID13020365
AuthorsSamir Puri (King's College London, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume2
Issue4
Pages307-323
Publication date2017-08-11
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Global Security Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2057-3189 • E-ISSN: 2057-3189
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/jogss/ogx015
OpenAlexW2765204253
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited14

This article examines the hedging strategies of Iran, Russia, and China. It demonstrates how these deeply dissatisfied states have used strategic hedging to pursue status and security: specifically, through local revisionism that does not jeopardize their ability to participate in the international system or trigger interstate war. The case studies show how these states have maintained this balance during three of the biggest interstate crises of the twenty-first century so far: confrontations over Iran's nuclear program, Russia's destabilization of Ukraine, and China's maritime operations. Each case juxtaposes these states ́ regional assertion of power with their efforts to bargain with the system hegemon. The evidence shows that despite ostensibly revisionist maneuvers, none of these states want to fight the US or to break with the global system. Rather, each has executed its revisionist gambits as part of a wider hedging strategy, calibrating their level of aggression to the tolerance of the US

Assertion · Balance (ability · Business · China · Economics · Economy · Hegemony · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Economic Sanctions and International Relations · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence · Law

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