ASEAN-US Flashcards
US FOR ASIA now 1
♣ Beeson: security guarantor + provides an export market for the region
realist vs constructivist
♣ Realist vs constructivist approach
o Realist: self-interest
o Constructivist: shared identity and values create structures which influence the behaviour of agents
economic future of us-east asia 2
o Shift of American foreign policy America First = more indifferent towards the region –> narrower east asian regionalism + less involvement in Asia-Pacific organisation
o Decrease in free trade 25% tariff on steel import –> return secondary sector jobs lost due to globalisation –> ‘bamboo capitalism’ –> increase of interregional asian trade
example of economic future 3
o Trump withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Shift from pax-americana to pax-asia pacifica
o Beeson: ASEAN +3 more promising future than an Asia Pacific Union due to the US FP shift
o Cha: bamboo capitalism raise since slow Us response to the 1997 financial crisis
military future point 15
o Remain the same
o San Francisco system
o Bilateral agreements
o Hub and spoke architecture
o Before during old regionalism: hub and spoke to face domino theory to stop the fall of countries to communism
o Now with new regionalism: still us military and economic rivalry but now is china rather than communism as a whole
o Thucydides trap: rising power threatens to displace that of a ruling one
♣ China has been a threat to us hegemony in EA
o US will continue to pivot towards Asia by re-affirming those alliances with nations that want to contain China
o Taiwan – Taiwan relations act affirmation and naval vessel transfer act 2014 naval vessel transfer to Taiwan
o Japan – revision of Article 9 Japanese navy overseas non-reliant anymore on US but able to contain China
o South Korea – Mutual defence treaty
o Hub and Spoke architecture decrease in order to strengthen agreements to contain china
o Quadrilateral Security Dialogue US, India, Japan and Australia
♣ United regional democratic strengthen vs China in South China Sea trying to override the 9-dash line
human security future 8
o greater emphasis on human security
o act upon violations of humans security upholds role of ‘leader of the free world’ especially under Clinton administration
o NATO bombing campaign to stop the ethnic-cleansing post break down of Yugoslavia
o US use of soft power vs Myanmar during the Rohingya crisis by threatening targeted sanctions despite knowledge that it will drive Myanmar closer towards China
o US policy is still governed by realism and the National Interest
o US should have been more persistent and forceful in soft and hard power to stem the Rohingya crisis
o increase in human security concerns, however it is still based on realism
o agenda of being a watch dog and counterweight to regional powers thanks to its alliances with SK, Japan and Taiwan