Covert Balancing: Great Powers, Secondary States and US Balancing Strategies Against China

Février 2021 by Hugo Meijer and Luis Simon, International Affairs Volume 97, Issue 2, March 2021, Pages 463–481

In this research paper published in the International Affairs journal, Hugo Meijer and Luis Simon focus on how great powers have always devised strategies in order to keep great rivals in check. The authors analyse various strategies by examining the US approach to China in the Asia-Pacific.

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Working Toward a Free and Open Indo-Pacific

Octobre 2019 by Nicholas Szechenyi and Yuichi Hosoya 

This paper published in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace explores the risks and opportunities for Japan and the USA in the Indo-Pacific region and comprehensive strategy and cooperation between Tokyo and Washington.

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Creating an Unstable Asia: The U.S. « Free and Open » Indo-Pacific Strategy

Mars 2018 by Michael D. Swaine

In this article, Michael D. Swaine explores how former President Donald Trump’s « free and open » Indo-Pacific strategy will likely provoke China, alarm other Asian nations, and drive the region into a tense, zero-sum competition. Such a confrontational posture risks a pointless Cold War with Beijing.

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