The U.S. Alliance Strategy And New-era Security Cooperation In Western Pacific

ABSTRACT:As a significant security strategy of the United States, alliance diplomacy has been regularly employed to pass through several transitions of world structure till the post-cold war unipolar hegemony era. The U.S.-led alliance system did not collapse along with the disintegration of the USSR, but continually served to suit for new challenges after an adjustment and redefinition period. Owing to its increasingly prominent geostrategic importance, the Western Pacific region has attracted more attentions than ever since the post-cold war period. Especially, during the New-era after9.11, the United States constantly consolidates alliance relations with the regional allies and strengthens military presence, so as to contain security threats and maintain the world supremacy, which meanwhile diminishes regional regular security cooperation. As the frequent communication among local states and changing security situation, regional integration represented by ASEAN, has moved on constantly. Besides, the multilateral security cooperation has been greatly intensified on the basis of economic integration accordingly, and the great powers are also struggling for establishing the mechanism of mutual security coordination. However, U.S.-led alliances and its military presence have radically weakened local centripetal force. With the intention to dominate regional cooperation process, the proactive intervention of the United States brings more complex influencing factors. Thus, in the foreseeable future, more and deeper security cooperation practices will go on among local nations, but it will take more tremendous efforts to eliminate the security dilemma, and the multilateral security cooperation will still be widely influenced by the U.S.-led alliance system, mixed with great powers’interaction, regionally mutual confidence, and structural contradictions.The key issue of this paper is the intimate influencing relations between the U.S. alliance strategy and New-era security cooperation in Western Pacific. The author uses thesis analysis, case study, literature summarization and strategy inquiry as research methods. Based on doctrinal study about alliance theory and historical analysis on the U.S. alliance strategy and related foreign practices, the paper mainly emphasizes on how to strengthen regional security cooperation with the presence of U.S-led alliance system in Western Pacific. The study on alliance theory and alliance-based security cooperation gives the paper a great realistic and academic meaning.Aiming at the subject above, the paper consists of four sections. Chapter One mainly gives a detailed description about the definition of alliance and fundamental alliance theories. Chapter Two furthermore states and analyzes the formation and development process of the U.S. alliance strategy, then summarizes common characteristics and basic logic. Chapter Three introduces periodic adjustments of the U.S. alliance policy in West Pacific, including its backgrounds, goals, forms and problems, with the case contrast of U.S.-Japan Alliance and U.S.-Philippines Alliance. Chapter Four focuses on profound impacts of U.S.-led alliances on security situation and current situation of regional security cooperation and. Finally, the paper proposes possible prospects for development of the regional security cooperation.