TY  - BOOK
AU  - He,Kai
AU  - Feng,Huiyun
TI  - After hedging: hard choices for the Indo-Pacific States between the US and China 
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in international relations,
SN  - 9781009420570 (ebook)
AV  - DS341.3.U6 H4 2023
U1  - 355/.033573091824 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Indo-Pacific Region
KW  - Relations
KW  - United States
KW  - China
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Sep 2023); Open Access
N2  - The strategic rivalry between the United States and China has heightened since COVID-19. Secondary states face increasing difficulties maintaining a 'hedging' strategy between the United States and China. This Element introduces a preference-for-change model to explain the policy variations of states during the order transition. It suggests that policymakers will perceive a potential change in the international order through a cost-benefit prism. The interplays between the perceived costs and the perception of benefits from the order transition will shape states' policy choices among four strategic options: (1) hedging to bet on uncertainties; (2) bandwagoning with rising powers to support changes; (3) balancing against rising powers to resist changes; and (4) buck-passing to ignore changes. Four case studies (Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Thailand) are conducted to explore the policy choices of regional powers during the international order transition. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009420570
ER  -