THE ASIA-PACIFIC ALLIANCES OF THE UNITED STATES: BETWEEN BALANCING, NEUTRALIZATION AND HEDGING
Journal: World Economy and International Relations
Year: 2017

The U.S.- led alliances in the Asia-Pacific, also known as the San Francisco System, serve as a foundation of America&rsquo;s political-military hegemony in this region as well as one of its global primacy pillars. Yet, the future of the System is uncertain. It faces the biggest challenge since its establishment in the early 1950s, the chief reason being the changing balance of power between the United States and China. Washington expects that the logic of balancing will be pushing its Asian all