Restraining Rivalries? US Alliance Policy and the Challenges of Regional Security in the Middle East and East Asia

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dc.contributor"European Union (EU)" and "Horizon 2020"
dc.contributor.authorMcNamara, Eoin Micheál
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-05T11:46:25Z
dc.date.available2017-10-05T11:46:25Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractBarack Obama’s US presidency clearly signalled that America aims to re-order its foreign policy preferences to emphasise Asia. This article examines the challenges for US alliance management in the Middle East and East Asia, the two regions that have encountered the sharpest turnaround in terms of the US strategic attention received, as measured by the past decade. The threat of regional rivalries, linked to wider nuclear proliferation, lingers over both these regions. In addressing the Middle East, this article will focus on the problematic US-Saudi alliance; this arrangement represents a fragile regional linchpin, preventing further nuclear proliferation and regional destabilisation. By comparison, East Asia is a far more stable security order. However, it is argued that the US will continue to face a difficult balancing act between its accommodation of China’s ‘peaceful rise’ and the credible assurance of its nervous allies: Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10062/58034
dc.language.isoenget
dc.publisherRoyal Irish Academyet
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/691818///UPTAKEet
dc.relation.ispartofIrish Studies in International Affairs, Vol. 27 (2016), pp. 201-222.en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccesset
dc.subjectMilitary strategyen
dc.subjectUSen
dc.subjectChinaen
dc.subjectJapanen
dc.subjectNorth Koreaen
dc.subjectIranen
dc.subjectSaudi Arabiaen
dc.subjectinternational alliancesen
dc.subjectalliancesen
dc.subjectnuclear weaponsen
dc.subjectmilitary alliancesen
dc.subjectregional securityen
dc.subjectnuclear deterrenceen
dc.subjectInternational securityen
dc.subjectrivalryen
dc.subjectsõjaline strateegiaet
dc.subjectUSA/Ameerika Ühendriigidet
dc.subjectHiinaet
dc.subjectrivaliteetet
dc.subjectJaapanet
dc.subjectPõhja-Koreaet
dc.subjectIraanet
dc.subjectSaudi Araabiaet
dc.subjectrahvusvahelised alliansidet
dc.subjectliitlasedet
dc.subjecttuumarelvadet
dc.subjectsõjalised liidudet
dc.subjectregionaalne julgeoleket
dc.subjecttuumaheidutuset
dc.subjectrahvusvaheline julgeoleket
dc.titleRestraining Rivalries? US Alliance Policy and the Challenges of Regional Security in the Middle East and East Asiaen
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleet

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