Abstract
Evaluating international political strategy includes critiquing the desired future implied in the strategy. The critique focuses on the value, attitudinal, and elite cohort trends regarding the critical target of the strategy. Evaluation of the strategy focuses on trend alteration for achieving the desired future. Security challenges in Northeast Asia are legacy issues from the Cold War. The Cold War containment instruments towards the USSR that the US created and oversaw continue to dominate politically the discourse regarding security challenges in the region. An understanding of the political forces that these bureaucratic, military, and economic vested interests institutionalized is useful for understanding discourse political contours. These vested interests embody the political forces that set the global political framework for what is today called globalization. The US Trump administration is politically constrained to maintain the general thrust of US foreign policy in the region. It is manifested in his continuation of the incremental nature of US policy making. Trump’s rhetoric of significant change serves primarily a legitimation function to reinforce the primacy of these vested interests in the US foreign policy making process.
Presenters
Benedict Edward DeDominicisProfessor of Political Science, School of International Studies, Catholic University of Korea, Gyeonggido [Kyonggi-do], South Korea
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2018 Special Focus: Subjectivities of Globalization
KEYWORDS
"China", " Strategy", " United States"
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