The Pivot to Asia

The Pivot to Asia
Author: Douglas Stuart
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781076574992

Deciding when, where, and how to prioritize is the essence of strategy. U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to designate the Indo-Asia-Pacific (IAP) as his top regional priority made good sense, in light of the ongoing shift in economic power from West to East and the rise of China as a potential global and regional peer competitor. The Obama Administration has attempted to use all available instruments of American power-diplomatic, information, military, and economic-to gain the support of regional friends and allies for its "pivot to Asia." Rather than a "one size fits all" approach, Washington has attempted to adapt its recruitment efforts to the specific interests and concerns of each regional actor. The U.S. campaign has benefitted from the fact that most IAP governments recognize the value of an active American presence in the region at a time of growing Chinese assertiveness. If Obama, and his successor, can sustain the pivot, it can serve as the foundation for U.S. grand strategy in the 21st century.

The Pivot to Asia: Can It Serve as the Foundation for American Grand Strategy in the 21st Century

The Pivot to Asia: Can It Serve as the Foundation for American Grand Strategy in the 21st Century
Author: Douglas T. Stuart
Publisher: Department of the Army
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2016-08-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781584877332

Deciding when, where, and how to prioritize is the essence of strategy. U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to designate the Indo-Asia-Pacific (IAP) as his top regional priority made good sense, in light of the ongoing shift in economic power from West to East and the rise of China as a potential global and regional peer competitor. The Obama Administration has attempted to use all available instruments of American power--diplomatic, informational, military, and economic--to gain the support of regional friends and allies for its "pivot to Asia." Rather than a "one size fits all" approach, Washington has attempted to adapt its recruitment efforts to the specific interests and concerns of each regional actor. The U.S. campaign has benefitted from the fact that most IAP governments recognize the value of an active American presence in the region at a time of growing Chinese assertiveness. If Obama, and his successor, can sustain the pivot, it can serve as the foundation for U.S. grand strategy in the 21st century. This book captures America's historical relations with China and includes President Obama's administration for meeting Indo-Asia Pacific (IAP) growth through diplomatic, informational, military, and economic conditions.Historians, policy advocates, international business executives, international relations and political scientist scholars may be interested in this volume. Additionally, students pursuing coursework in Chinese studies, political science, international business, and foreign policy may be interested in this book for supplemental reading. Related products: Asia Eyes America; Regional Perspectives on U.S. Asian-Pacific Strategy in the Twenty-First Century is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-046-00240-1 India-Japan Strategic Cooperation and Implications for U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Asia Pacific Region is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01237-7 The Asia-Pacific Century: Challenges and Opportunities can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-070-00868-8 U.S.-China Competition: Asia-Pacific Land Force Implications can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01215-6

The Pivot to Asia

The Pivot to Asia
Author: United States Government Us Army
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2016-12-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781540779977

The Pivot to Asia: Can It Serve As The Foundation For American Grand Strategy In The 21 St Century? This monograph is an audit of the policies pursued by the Obama Administration in support of the so-called "pivot to Asia." After explaining why U.S. President Barack Obama chose to accord top priority to the Indo-Asia-Pacific (IAP) region, Dr. Douglas T. Stuart discusses the diplomatic, information, military, and economic instruments of power, which were available to Washington to accomplish its goals. Dr. Stuart notes that the United States faced some unique problems in its efforts to rely upon diplomacy, public information, and economics to gain influence in the region. Under these circumstances, Washington drew upon its substantial regional military presence as the foundation for its pivot campaign. Dr. Stuart discusses both the strengths and weaknesses of the so-called San Francisco network of U.S.-sponsored security relationships with key regional governments. He notes that the Obama Administration has had to adapt its policies to the specific interests and concerns of each regional actor, with varying degrees of success. He accords special attention to the security concerns of Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and India.

Handbook on the United States in Asia

Handbook on the United States in Asia
Author: Andrew T.H. Tan
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2018-09-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1788110668

The centre of gravity in today’s global economy arguably now resides in Asia. As a result of this, the maintenance of geopolitical and economic security in Asia has become pivotal to global stability. This indispensable Handbook examines the crucial and multifaceted role of the United States as a force in the region that has been, and continues to be, necessary for the continuation of Asian prosperity.

Lost Decade

Lost Decade
Author: Robert Blackwill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2024
Genre: History
ISBN: 0197677940

Across the political spectrum, there is wide agreement that Asia should be at the center of US foreign policy. But this worldview, the "Pivot to Asia" announced by the Obama Administration in 2011, is a dramatic departure from the entire history of American grand strategy. Ten years on, we now have some perspective to evaluate it in depth. In The Lost Decade, Robert Blackwill and Richard Fontaine take this long view. They conclude that there are few successes to speak of, and that we lack a coherent approach to the Indo-Pacific region. They examine the Pivot through various lenses: situating it historically in the context of America's global foreign policy, revealing the inside story of how it came about, assessing the effort thus far, identifying the ramifications in other regions (namely Europe and the Middle East), and proposing a path forward.

China’s Securing, Shaping, and Exploitation of Strategic Spaces: Gray Zone Response and Counter-Shi Strategies

China’s Securing, Shaping, and Exploitation of Strategic Spaces: Gray Zone Response and Counter-Shi Strategies
Author: Robert J. Bunker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2019-12-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1796077860

The timing of Dr. Robert J. Bunker’s new SWJ pocket book is apropos given the increasing intransigence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in both its domestic ‘police state’ security policies and foreign ‘expansionistic’ economic and military activities. This authoritarian regime—bereft of its former Marxist and Maoist ideologies except in name only—under the iron fisted leadership of ‘president for life’ Xi Jinping is increasingly in the news for the many draconian and predatory behaviors and actions in which it is now engaging. Dave Dilegge Editor-in-Chief Small Wars Journal

Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China

Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China
Author: Robert D. Blackwill
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0876096461

Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis argue that the United States has responded inadequately to the rise of Chinese power. This Council Special Report recommends placing less strategic emphasis on the goal of integrating China into the international system and more on balancing China's rise.

Japan’s Decision For War In 1941: Some Enduring Lessons

Japan’s Decision For War In 1941: Some Enduring Lessons
Author: Dr. Jeffrey Record
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2015-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786252961

Japan’s decision to attack the United States in 1941 is widely regarded as irrational to the point of suicidal. How could Japan hope to survive a war with, much less defeat, an enemy possessing an invulnerable homeland and an industrial base 10 times that of Japan? The Pacific War was one that Japan was always going to lose, so how does one explain Tokyo’s decision? Did the Japanese recognize the odds against them? Did they have a concept of victory, or at least of avoiding defeat? Or did the Japanese prefer a lost war to an unacceptable peace? Dr. Jeffrey Record takes a fresh look at Japan’s decision for war, and concludes that it was dictated by Japanese pride and the threatened economic destruction of Japan by the United States. He believes that Japanese aggression in East Asia was the root cause of the Pacific War, but argues that the road to war in 1941 was built on American as well as Japanese miscalculations and that both sides suffered from cultural ignorance and racial arrogance. Record finds that the Americans underestimated the role of fear and honor in Japanese calculations and overestimated the effectiveness of economic sanctions as a deterrent to war, whereas the Japanese underestimated the cohesion and resolve of an aroused American society and overestimated their own martial prowess as a means of defeating U.S. material superiority. He believes that the failure of deterrence was mutual, and that the descent of the United States and Japan into war contains lessons of great and continuing relevance to American foreign policy and defense decision-makers.

The Pivot

The Pivot
Author: Kurt Campbell
Publisher: Twelve
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1455568961

From former assistant secretary of state Kurt M. Campbell comes the definitive analysis and explanation of the new major shift in American foreign policy, its interests and assets, to Asia. There is a quiet drama playing out in American foreign policy far from the dark contours of upheaval in the Middle East and South Asia and the hovering drone attacks of the war on terror. The United States is in the midst of a substantial and long-term national project, which is proceeding in fits and starts, to reorient its foreign policy to the East. The central tenet of this policy shift, aka the Pivot, is that the United States will need to do more with and in the Asia-Pacific hemisphere to help revitalize its own economy, to realize the full potential of the region's dramatic innovation, and to keep the peace in the world's most dynamic region where the lion's share of the history of the twenty-first century will be written. This book is about a necessary course correction for American diplomacy, commercial engagement, and military innovation during a time of unrelenting and largely unrewarding conflict. While the United States has intensified its focus on the Asia-Pacific arena relative to previous administrations, much more remains to be done. The Pivot is about that future. It explores how the United States should construct a strategy that will position it to maneuver across the East and offers a clarion call for cunning, dexterity, and ingenuity in the period ahead for American statecraft in the Asia-Pacific region.