Improbable Dangers: U.S. Conceptions of Threat in the Cold War and After

Johnson, Robert Erwin; Maddox, Robert James

doi:10.1080/03612759.1995.9949146

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“…Antipodean anxiety is even mirrored at the Track 2 level, where recent initiatives such as the Network of East Asian Think Tanks (NEAT) are regarded by some as a (Chinese-led) challenge to more established processes in which Australia is already a key player, such as CSCAP. 14 Canberra has responded to these dilemmas by continuing to engage with those processes through which the powerful idea of a distinctly East Asian Community appears most likely to materialise-namely APT and the EAS-even while conceding that Australia is unlikely to become a particularly influential or integral member of such groupings. At the same time, however, Canberra has indirectly balanced against the prospect of a more exclusive East Asian Community by throwing its weight behind competing mechanisms that exhibit a more inclusive communal ethos.…”

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“…Abe, Shinzo 63,112,114,119n4,119n11,120n12 and visit to China 7, 111 Acharya, Amitav 12 Afghanistan 4,[33][34][35][36][37][41][42]70,95,98n21,103 aid 41,[47][48][54][55]59,61,102,113 humanitarian assistance 36,54,76,95, Raptor 87 Albright, Madeleine 13 alliances 1, 5, 7-8, 63-65, 68, 72, 74, 76, 79-80, 90-91, 105 (ASEAN) 2 -3, 8, 11-14, 18, 21-30, 31n2, 38, 62, 69 8,[15][16]25,62,114,118 ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) 3,8,[11][12][13][14][15]62,64,92,118 ' ASEAN Way', concept of 28 Australia 8,12,[15]…”

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“…14 The Pentagon remains committed to shifting away from large garrisons at fixed bases toward expeditionary forces operating out of austere forward bases. QDR2006 speaks undramatically of the need to conduct multiple, overlapping wars 15 -an indicator of how far the Pentagon has moved intellectually from the 2MRC era.…”

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Architecture of Security

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“…See Friedberg 1989;Kennedy 1987;and Nye 1990. 12. Analyses of foreign policy that emphasize these ideational factors include Johnson 1994;Friedberg 1988;and Walt 1987. the international system has a strong impact on the way that IR scholars conduct their business. This article makes the latter claim.…”

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Economics and Security in Statecraft and Scholarship

Mastanduno¹

1998

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This article traces and explains how U.S. policy officials and IR scholars have conceived of the relationship between economics and security over the past half-century. During the interwar years, economics and security were integrated in both scholarship and statecraft. During the Cold War, scholars treated the two issues as separate areas of inquiry. U.S. policymakers integrated economics and security during the early Cold War, but by the 1970s the two components of U.S. foreign policy had drifted apart. After the Cold War, a renewed emphasis has emerged in both U.S. statecraft and IR scholarship on the integration of economics and security. Three factors explain these patterns: (1) the international distribution of material capabilities, (2) perceptions of the strategic environment, and (3) perceptions of the position of the United States in international economic competition.

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“…Paradigms have to be convincing to be adopted, so much so in fact that a paradigm need not be accurate, but only convincing. To make a philosophical point, as Patrick Morgan once commented, mankind has a “pressing need to explain the world; it has no need to see it explained correctly” (quoted in R. Johnson, 1997:17).…”

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Samuel Huntington and the Geopolitics of American Identity: The Function of Foreign Policy in America's Domestic Clash of Civilizations

Aysha¹

2003

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The clash of civilizations thesis's true origins lie partly in problems Samuel Huntington sees brewing in his own country. His thesis is to a considerable extent an externalization of these troubles––an attempt to solve them through international means, while serving U.S. national interests in tandem. As a scholar of American exceptionalism Huntington is––explicitly and openly––concerned about the political unity and cultural homogeneity of his country in the absence of the existential threat of world Communism. He sees “multiculturalism” and excessive immigration threatening America's dominant Anglo‐Saxon, Protestant, English culture and its libertarian political values. Right‐wing “anti‐federalism” is threatening the authority and very existence of the federal government, while “commercialism,” the elevation of commercial interests above all else among economic and political elites, intensifies the class conflict roots of much anti‐federalism. The solution to these myriad problems is a foreign threat, whether real or perceived; hence, the clash of civilizations.

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Improbable Dangers: U.S. Conceptions of Threat in the Cold War and After

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