Regional powers and security: A framework for understanding order within regional security complexes

Frazier, Derrick V.; Stewart-Ingersoll, Robert

doi:10.1177/1354066109359847

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“…While the US exerts greater control over State A's foreign policy, it lacks the ability to constrain State A's neighbors in the same way. The projection of military power into State A may actually exacerbate security dilemma dynamics between State A and its neighbors, as it necessarily alters the balance of power in the region (Brown 2013(Brown , 2014Destradi and Gundlach 2013;Frazier and Stewart-Ingersoll 2010;Lake 2009b). Accordingly, State A should only cede a medium amount of authority when neighborhood deployments are small, since the host-state might want to maintain flexibility in dealing with potentially contentious neighbors.…”

Section: A Theory Of Spatial Hierarchymentioning

confidence: 99%

Regions of Hierarchy and Security: US Troop Deployments, Spatial Relations, and Defense Burdens

Allen

Flynn

VanDusky-Allen

2016

International Interactions

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Recent work has begun exploring the effects of foreign military deployments on hoststate foreign policies. However, research mostly focuses on dyadic relationships between major powers and host-states, ignoring the broader regional security environment of host-states. We develop a theory of spatial hierarchies to understand how security relationships throughout the region surrounding the host-state affect hoststate foreign policy. Using data on US military deployments from 1950-2005, we show that regional security considerations condition how host-states respond to the deployment of military forces to their territory. Consequently, regional analyses are fundamental in understanding monadic and dyadic decisions about security, alliance behavior, and conflict.Major powers have a history of deploying their military forces to project power. In spite of their importance, international relations research contains little work on the consequences of such deployments. However, scholars have begun examining a range of issues associated with US military deployments, including economic growth, trade, investment, security policy, conflict behavior, and crime (Martinez Machain and Morgan 2013). While this research area has grown, the role that such deployments play in the regional security environment remains under-explored. Accordingly, interpretations of causality in existing studies is incomplete as the regional context exerts a conditioning effect upon the relationships of interest. Fundamentally, regional security contexts should affect how states respond to the presence of foreign military forces.Herein we examine how US military deployments affect foreign policy decisions. We build upon previous studies by incorporating regional security factors into our theoretical argument and analysis. Using data on US military deployments since 1950, we analyze how US military deployments to a host-state, as well as deployments to third-party states in the region, affect these states' defense spending decisions. Studies typically focus on the host-state's response to US troop deployments in a dyadic fashion, evaluating how US deployments affect the host-state's military spending or conflict propensity (e.g. Allen, Flynn and VanDusky-Allen 2014; Lake 2009a; Martinez Machain and Morgan 2013). This approach assumes that the effects of US military deployments on a particular state are independent of military deployments in neighboring states and the regional security environment. * The authors would like to thank David Lake, Pat Shea, Carla Martinez Machain, Chad Clay, the editorial team at International Interactions, and two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. Replication files can be found at the International Interactions Dataverse page: http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/internationalinteractions. Questions regarding replication materials can be directed to meflynn@ksu.edu. 2This variable is the sum of the CINC scores for pairs of states with an S score that is less than the global median S score, calculated for al...

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Section: A Theory Of Spatial Hierarchymentioning

confidence: 99%

Regions of Hierarchy and Security: US Troop Deployments, Spatial Relations, and Defense Burdens

Allen

Flynn

VanDusky-Allen

2016

International Interactions

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“…The interdependent character of RSCs makes their members more prone to interaction, and these social relations affect the way they see each other. Thus RSCs are not merely the sum of their parts, but rather function as structures capable of modifying patterns of behaviour among their members, since they are capable of shaping interests, values, meanings and identities (Buzan and Waever 2003;Frazier and Stewart-Ingersoll 2010).…”

Section: Regional Security Complex Theorymentioning

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“…According to Frazier and Stewart-Ingersoll (2010), the possession of material capabilities is insufficient to make a state behave as a regional power; there must be an ideational motivation as well. Hence, Brazil's interest in the creation of a South Atlantic RSC cannot be explained only by its dominant position among South Atlantic states.…”

Section: Regional Security Complex Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Brazilian Policy and the Creation of a Regional Security Complex in the South Atlantic: Pax Brasiliana?

2017

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Abstract:Over the past five years, the South Atlantic region has become a central element of Brazilian security policy, with Brazil actively supporting the notion of a trans-oceanic security consciousness involving African littoral states. It has invested in diplomatic initiatives such as the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic (ZPCSA, or ZOPACAS), and extensive military co-operation with West African states such as São Tomé e Príncipe, Namibia and Cape Verde. Its internal security and defence policy documents have repeatedly been updated to reflect this dimension, and now provide the foundation for advancing these initiatives. This policy thrust is directed at securing Brazil's offshore oil assets, and limiting the influence of what it has termed 'extra-regional powers' such as the P-5. This article highlights these initiatives and reviews the prospects for this policy by examining the plausibility of the South Atlantic region as a regional security complex in the sense coined by Buzan and Waever. The analysis is based on the role of geographical and linguistic proximity in international relations, and the impact of multilateral bodies on building support for a regional approach to security governance.

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“…7 Numerous studies that deal with the concept of strategic revisionism have departed from classical power transition theory's distinction (Johnston 2003;Organski and Kugler 1980) between dissatisfied/unsatiated revisionist versus satisfied/satiated status quo states, for example, Schweller andPu (2011), Nel andStephen (2010), Frazier and Stewart-Ingersoll (2010), Zionts (2006), Legro (2005), and Chan (2004).…”

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The Politics of Contestation in Asia: How Japan and Pakistan Deal with Their Rising Neighbors

Ebert¹,

Flemes

Strüver

2012

SSRN Journal

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Rising powers have attracted tremendous interest in international politics and theory. Yet the ways in which secondary powers strategically respond to regional changes in the distribution of power have been largely neglected. This article seeks to fill this gap by presenting a systematic comparative analysis of the different types of and causes of contestation strategies undertaken by secondary powers. Empirically, it focuses on two contentious regional dyads in East and South Asia, exploring how structural, behavioral, and historical factors shape the way in which Japan and Pakistan respond, respectively, to China's and India's regional power politics. The paper concludes that the explanatory power of these factors depends on the particular context: in the case of Japan, China's militarily assertive regional role has invoked the most significant strategic shifts, while in the case of Pakistani contestation, shifts in polarity have had the largest impact on the strategic approach.

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Regional powers and security: A framework for understanding order within regional security complexes

Cited by 60 publications

References 41 publications

Regions of Hierarchy and Security: US Troop Deployments, Spatial Relations, and Defense Burdens

Regions of Hierarchy and Security: US Troop Deployments, Spatial Relations, and Defense Burdens

Brazilian Policy and the Creation of a Regional Security Complex in the South Atlantic: Pax Brasiliana?

The Politics of Contestation in Asia: How Japan and Pakistan Deal with Their Rising Neighbors

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