American Grand Strategy in the Indo Pacific: Plus ça change?

In an era of heightened great power competition, debates about American grand strategy in the Indo-Pacific region have returned to the fore. This review essay looks at three recent volumes that directly address such debates. After introducing the concept of grand strategy, Part I reviews each of the books individually in sequence, outlining their scope, contents, and contributions. Part II then integrates the contribution of each of the volumes into a broader discussion relating to four pertinent issues: American perspectives on “Asia”; international relations (IR) theory; American strategic culture; and the rise of China, before concluding. The books under review are to differing degrees orientated toward one of the core IR theory paradigms: realism (Green), liberalism (Campbell), and constructivism/critical (Kang) approaches. As such, read together, they contribute to a multi-faceted theoretical understanding of US grand strategy in the Indo Pacific that will be of significant value to both scholars and practitioners.

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美国在印度-太平洋地区的大战略： 万变不离其宗？

关键词：大战略；美国对外政策；印度-太平洋地区；美国外交；战略转向

在这个大国竞争加剧的时代，关于美国在印度-太平洋地区的大战略的争论又重新受到关注。 本评论文章考察了最近出版的三本直接讨论这些争议问题的著作。在介绍了大战略这个概念之后，本文第一部分对每本书逐一进行了评论，勾画出它们的分析范围、内容和所作的贡献。第二部分将每本书的贡献整合进一个涉及到四个相关问题的更广泛的讨论： 美国对“亚洲”的视角、国际关系理论、美国的战略文化以及中国崛起，最后得出结论。本文所评论的著作均不同程度地定位于国际关系的核心范式理论之一，包括现实主义（格林）、自由主义（坎贝尔），以及建构主义/批判方法（康）。因此，放在一起阅读时，这些著作有助于对美国在印度-太平洋地区的大战略做出多方面的理论理解，这对于学者以及政治实操者都有重大的价值。