The Obama administration's strategic pivot to Asia: From a diplomatic to a strategic constrainment of an emergent China?
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
International Studies
Document Type
Article
Source Title
Korean Journal of Defense Analysis
Volume
25
Issue
3
First Page
331
Last Page
349
Publication Date
9-9-2013
Abstract
This article examines the connection between President Barack Obama's 2011 Strategic Pivot to Asia and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 2010 Hanoi Declaration on the South China Sea dispute. Secretary Clinton's statement during the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in July 2010 evoked a new diplomatic strategy in confronting an emergent and assertive China-constrainment. This strategy involved Washington working with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member-states in persuading China to adhere to a multilateral approach in resolving the South China Sea issue. However, China admonished the ASEAN states not to follow the U.S. bidding. As a major economic partner and an occasional political ally of most ASEAN states, China subsequently thwarted the U.S. design to form a regional bloc for a constrainment policy. Failing diplomatically, the Obama administration is rebalancing U.S. naval /air forces toward the Asia-Pacific region. This marks a shift from a diplomatic constrainment policy to a pivot strategy that is predicated on American military power. © 2013 Korea Institute for Defense Analyses.
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Recommended Citation
De Castro, R. C. (2013). The Obama administration's strategic pivot to Asia: From a diplomatic to a strategic constrainment of an emergent China?. Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, 25 (3), 331-349. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2976
Disciplines
International Relations
Keywords
Boundary disputes; South China Sea—Boundaries--Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia—Boundaries--South China Sea; United States--Foreign relations--Asia; Asia--Foreign relations--United States
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