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oapen-20.500.12657-475742021-04-02T10:25:15Z Uncertainty, Threat, and International Security Savic, Ivan Shirkey, Zachary C. Politics and government The rise of China is changing the strategic landscape globally and regionally. How states respond to potential threats posed by this new power arrangement will be crucial to international relations for the coming decades. This book builds on existing realist and rationalist concepts of balancing, bandwagoning, commitment problems, and asymmetric information to craft explanations about how states respond when faced with potential threats. Specifically, the book explores the role different types of uncertainty play in potential balancing situations. Particular focus is given to the nature of the rising state’s actions, the balance of forces, and the value of delay. These concepts are analysed and illustrated through a series of case studies on Europe in the 1930s as well as the present-day Southeast Asia, looking at great powers such as Britain and France, but also a wide range of smaller powers including Poland, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. 2021-04-01T14:02:54Z 2021-04-01T14:02:54Z 2017 book ONIX_20210401_9781317050384_2 9781317050384 9781472483225 9781315610658 9781472483201 9781472483218 9780367264901 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47574 eng Rethinking Asia and International Relations application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781317050384.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315610658 10.4324/9781315610658 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781317050384 9781472483225 9781315610658 9781472483201 9781472483218 9780367264901 Routledge 180 open access
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The rise of China is changing the strategic landscape globally and regionally. How states respond to potential threats posed by this new power arrangement will be crucial to international relations for the coming decades. This book builds on existing realist and rationalist concepts of balancing, bandwagoning, commitment problems, and asymmetric information to craft explanations about how states respond when faced with potential threats. Specifically, the book explores the role different types of uncertainty play in potential balancing situations. Particular focus is given to the nature of the rising state’s actions, the balance of forces, and the value of delay. These concepts are analysed and illustrated through a series of case studies on Europe in the 1930s as well as the present-day Southeast Asia, looking at great powers such as Britain and France, but also a wide range of smaller powers including Poland, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
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