Compound Containment
A Reigning Power's Military-Economic Countermeasures against a Challenging Power
Author(s)
Kim, Dong Jung
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Balance of Power, Balancing, Cold War, Containment: Economy-Security Nexus, Economic Statecraft, Economic Warfare, Geoeconomics, Grand Strategy, Great Power Politics, Hegemonic Competition, Interdependence, International Relations Theory, International Structure, Liberalism, Major Wars, Material Power, Realism, Rise of China, Sino-U.S. Competition, Structural Theory, Thucydides Trap, U.S. Foreign PolicyDOI
10.3998/mpub.11622137ISBN
9780472132980, 9780472039005, 9780472129942, 9780472902804Publisher
University of Michigan PressPublisher website
https://www.press.umich.edu/Publication date and place
Ann Arbor, 2022Grantor
Imprint
University of Michigan PressClassification
Diplomacy
Warfare and defence