Taking a side between the United States and the People’s Republic of China: Strategic hedging of South Korea and India

Hwang, Wonjae; Ryou-Ellison, Hayoun Jessie

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“…Third, these elements are clearly reflected in hybrid behaviour over issues like trade and security, especially in regional contexts such as East and Southeast Asia (see Hwang & Ryou‐Ellison, 2021; Jones & Jenne, 2021). The same is true of global issues, as with climate change, where the EU sided with the US normative agenda at COP 21 in Paris, only to cleave towards China's agenda at COP 26 in Glasgow.…”

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The age of fuzzy bifurcation: Lessons from the pandemic and the Ukraine War

Higgott¹,

Reich

2022

Global Policy

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The logics of economics and politics aligned during the Cold War. Together they created two selfcontained spheres. The Western economic sphere consisted of North America, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia and a group of post-colonial states who nonetheless remained dependent on foreign direct investment, trade and the monopoly transportation links of the former colonial power. American dominance was predicated on three pillars: multinational corporations, nuclear capacity and the role of the dollar (Gilpin, 1987). America's imperialist designs found parallels in Russia's dominance of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw bloc (Anderson, 2015). Non-aligned states -notably the Group of 77 at the UN General Assembly -wistfully advocated the creation of a New International Economic Order (Cox, 1979).The logic of geopolitics followed the same parameters as the geoeconomic. European states sheltered under the American nuclear umbrella. Soviet dominance was evident in its invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Although China's fraying alliance with the Soviet Union fractured after Richard Nixon's

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confidence: 99%