Accession Number:

AD1023603

Title:

Guided Socialization: Using U.S. Influence to Establish an Inter Elite Culture of Cooperation in East Asia

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Air Command and Staff College Maxwell Air Force Base United States

Personal Author(s):

• Field,Damon G.

Report Date:

2014-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

30.0

Abstract:

The strategic rebalance of US power in East Asia, referred to as the Asia Pivot, lacks both defined objectives and a road map to success. We contend that the central objectives of US strategic policy in East Asia are the pursuit of economic growth and continued regional stability, not necessarily US regional hegemony. However, current US policy presents a schizophrenic narrative to East Asia, unconvincingly bridging the divide between alliance-centric containment, amorphous multilateral security, and indeterminate complex interdependence.

Descriptors:

• international law
• international relations
• treaties
• agreements
• intergovernmental organizations
• international organizations
• international security
• geopolitics
• CULTURE (SOCIAL SCIENCES)
• alliances
• motivation
• nuclear weapons
• economic systems
• COOPERATION

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE