Asia Pacific Countries and the US Rebalancing Strategy

by David W.F. Huang (editor)

This book examines the success of the US rebalancing (or pivot) strategy towards Asia, placing the US pivot in a historical context while highlighting its policy content and management dilemmas. Further, the contributors discuss the challenges and opportunities that each regional state confronts in responding to the US rebalancing strategy. In 2011, President Barack Obama laid out the framework for a strategic pivot of US policy towards the Asia Pacific region. Writers in this volume focus specifically on Asian perception of the strategy. Among the topics they explore China’s desire to be seen as equal to the US while maintaining foreign policy initiatives independent of the US strategic rebalance; the strengthening of Japan’s alliance with the US through its security policies; the use of US-China competition by South Korea to negotiate its influence in the region; and Australia’s embrace of the strategy as a result of foreign direct investment that provides economic benefits to the country. 

406 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 29, 2016

About the author

David W.F. Huang has a DPhil from Oxford University and is an Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of European and American Studies, Academica Sinica, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University. His current research focuses on comparative regionalism and US and EU politics. Over the years his research has been supported by grants from the National Science Council in Taiwan.

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