After Hedging: Hard Choices For The Indo-Pacific States Between The Us And China (Elements In International Relations) - 9781009462693

The strategic rivalry between the United States and China has heightened since the COVID pandemic. Secondary states are facing increasing difficulties in maintaining a 'hedging' strategy between the US and China. This Element introduces a preference-for-change model to explain the policy variations of states during the period of order transition. It suggests that policymakers will perceive a potential change in the international order through a cost-benefit prism. It discusses the four stragic options that will be used by the interplays between the perceived costs and the perception of benefits from the order transition to shape states' policy choices. The Element also discusses four case studies that explore the policy choices of regional powers during the international order transition. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

• | Author: Kai He, Huiyun Feng
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 05, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 75 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1009462695
• | ISBN-13: 9781009462693