Compound containment : a reigning power's military-economic countermeasures against a challenging power / / Dong Jung Kim

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910557934603321
• Autore: Kim Dong Jung <1981->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2022; ©2022
• ISBN: 9780472902804; 0472902806
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Disciplina: 341.5/8
• Soggetti: Reprisals; Intervention (International law) - Economic aspects; Economic sanctions; International relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-196) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Theory of Compound Containment -- 3. The Absence of Britain's Compound Containment against Germany, 1898-1914 -- 4. US Compound Containment of Japan, 1939-1941 -- 5. US Compound Containment of the Soviet Union, 1947-1950 -- 6. Fluctuations in US Response to the Soviet Union, 1979-1985 -- 7. The Absence of US Compound Containment against China, 2009-2016 -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: When does a reigning great power of the international system supplement military containment of a challenging power by restricting its economic exchanges with that state? Scholars of great power politics have traditionally focused on examining a reigning power's military containment of a challenging power. In direct contrast, Compound Containment demonstrates that these conventional studies are flawed without a sound understanding of the multilayered aspects of containment strategy in great power politics. Since economic capacity and military power are intimately linked to one another, countering a challenging power requires addressing both economic and military ; dimensions. Nonetheless, this nexus of security and economy in a reigning power's response to a challenging power cannot be explained by traditional theories that dominate research in international security. Author Dong Jung Kim fills a gap in the scholarship on great power competition by investigating when a reigning power will make its military containment of a challenging power "compound" by simultaneously employing restrictive economic measures. Its main theoretical claims are corroborated by an analysis of key historical cases of reigning power-challenging power competition. This book also offers policy prescriptions for the United States by examining whether the United States is in a position to complement military containment of China with restrictive economic measures.