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The Logic And Focus Of American East Asian Policy After World War

Posted on:2014-02-05Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:S D LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1106330464961437Subject:International politics
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USA is the most important oversea country for the East Asian area, while China and Japan are two of the most important countries in the East Asian area. In the meantime, the Sino-Japanese relations are the most important bilateral relationship in the East Asian area. During the first thirty years of the 21 century or more, USA would still be the key factor in the triad of these three countries. Its policies on China and Japan on a large part decide the future of these three countries, hence the future of the East Asian area. Working on the evolution of the logic and pivot of the USA’s East Asian policies after the Second World War, this paper aims to solve the problems on three aspects:the nature of the logic and pivot of the USA’s East Asian policies, the factors which affects the logic and pivot of the USA’s East Asian policies, the influences of the evolution of the logic and pivot on the USA’s policies on Japan and China.This paper points out that the decision making cognition of the American government’s diplomatic-decision team-the East Asia outlook is the basement of establishing America’s East Asia policies; during the process of the implementation of the policies, the American government’s diplomatic-decision team would form new decision cognition with the input of new information, and therefore revise the logic of the East Asia policies and change the pivot. As two of the most important countries in the East Asia areas, Sino-U.S. relationship and U.S.-Japan relationship are also the most important bilateral relationships to America. However, driving by the different logic of the local diplomatic policies, the relatively limited America diplomatic resources would tend to be focused on different pivot, which lead to the competition and interaction between the U.S. policy on China and that on Japan.Based on the review of the relative theories, this paper formulates a cognition-decision analysis framework about the America’s East Asia policy logic. The framework consists of two parts:firstly, it is the policy-maker’s characters, values and world outlooks that work as the first element of the formation of cognition; moreover, the international environment works as the most important outer condition which affects the formulation of the cognition. Secondly, the three key elements which lead to the change or revision of cognition of the America’s East Asia would be the international environment, the policy agency of Japan and China and the international crisis.According to the argument that the central component of the decision-making process is the struggle over whose definition of a political phenomenon will prevail, the paper points out, members of decision groups struggle to define the nature of problem and build consensus for particular policy choices. Therefore, the group cognition comes from the social and political interactions that include deliberate advocacy and augmentation. With the combined influence of the change of international environment, the agency of China and Japan and the international crisis, some group members who would reshape the policy debate to favor their cause can convey their image through slogans, historical analogies, stereotype, or visual images. Finally, with the input of enough information, the former group cognition will be changed or revised to form a new cognition, and then lead to new policy logic.By applying the cognition-decision analyzing framework, this paper analyzes the policies against China and Japan of the Roosevelt government and the Truman government, the Nixon government, Carter government and Reagan government during the middle and later periods of the cold war, the Clinton and Bush government. Then it explains America’s logic and pivot of the East Asia policies and its evolution to test this paper’s view and analyze the validity of the framework.Lastly, the paper predicts the outlook of the East Asia policy of Obama government, concludes the theory contribution and future study area, and promotes some policy recommendations.
Keywords/Search Tags:Cognition-Decision, International Environment, Policy Agency, International Crisis, China Policy, Japan Policy
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