Compound Containment: A Reigning Power's Military-Economic Countermeasures against a Challenging Power
Compound Containment: A Reigning Power's Military-Economic Countermeasures against a Challenging Power
by Dong Jung Kim
University of Michigan Press, 2022 eISBN: 978-0-472-12994-2 | Cloth: 978-0-472-13298-0 | Paper: 978-0-472-03900-5 Library of Congress Classification KZ6362.K56 2022 Dewey Decimal Classification 341.58
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Dong Jung Kim is Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University.
REVIEWS
“Excellent scholarship on a very pertinent topic. [Kim’s exploration of] the root causes of difficulties in imposing economic containment on China is very useful for both policy and theory.”
—T.V. Paul, McGill University
— T.V. Paul
“Excellent scholarship on a very pertinent topic. [Kim’s exploration of] the root causes of difficulties in imposing economic containment on China is very useful for both policy and theory.”
—T.V. Paul, McGill University
— T.V. Paul
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 A Theory of Compound Containment
Chapter 3 The Absence of Britain’s Compound Containment against Germany, 1898-1914
Chapter 4 U.S. Compound Containment of Japan, 1939-1941
Chapter 5 U.S. Compound Containment of the Soviet Union, 1947-1950
Chapter 6 Fluctuations in U.S. Response to the Soviet Union, 1979-1985
Chapter 7 The Absence of U.S. Compound Containment against China, 2009-2016
Chapter 8 Conclusion
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