Suchergebnisse

Chapter 1: Introduction.-Part I: American Games.-Chapter 2: It's All Games: U.S. Foreign and Security Policies -- Chapter 3: American Football and War -- Chapter 4: Football vs. Soccer: American Warfare in an Era of Unconventional Threats -- Chapter 5: Chess and Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence -- Chapter 6: The Great Pacific Chess Match: U.S. Chess Moves on China -- Chapter 7: Uncovering Hidden Patterns of Thought in War: Weiqi Versus Chess -- Chapter 8: Baseball and American Strategic Culture -- Chapter 9: United States vs North Korea in No-Limit Poker: Alligator Blood or Dead Money? -- Part II: Chinese Games -- Chapter 10: Learning from the Stones: A Weiqi Approach to Mastering China's Strategic Concept, Shi -- Chapter 11: East Meets West: An Ancient Game Sheds New Light on U.S.-Asian Strategic Relations -- Chapter 12: China's Strategic Moves and Countermoves in the Asia-Pacific -- Chapter 13: Weiqi and Artificial Intelligence: Potential for Strategic Decision Making.

"This analysis discusses the nature of U.S.-China relations in the context of an ongoing power transition between these two great powers."

System-level theories of international relations traditionally focus on the distribution of power capability as the main factor in influencing alignment behavior and the outcome of international conflict. However, the results have not been completely satisfactory. This study suggests that we improve the extant theories by considering the alignment bonds and links along the friend-enemy lines. From an analysis of the joint effect of the balancing of power capabilities and the balancing of the friend-enemy alignment relations, I conclude that in an international system with countries in conflict, an uneven distribution of power capability coupled with the balance of friend-enemy alignment relations in the system provides the best conditions for conflict management. This proposition is subsequently applied to examine the pattern of alignment relations and their impact on military conflict in the Middle East system from 1948 to 1978. The findings support this theoretical assertion.

View the Executive SummaryDr. David Lai provides a timely assessment of the geostrategic significance of Asia-Pacific. His monograph is also a thought-provoking analysis of the U.S. strategic shift toward the region and its implications. Dr. Lai judiciously offers the following key points. First, Asia-Pacific, which covers China, Northeast Asia, and Southeast Asia, is a region with complex currents. On the one hand, there is an unabated region-wide drive for economic development that has been pushing Asia-Pacific forward for decades. On the other, this region is troubled with, aside from many other conflicts, unsettled maritime disputes that have the potential to trigger wars between and among Asia-Pacific nations. Second, on top of these mixed currents, China and the United States compete intensely over a wide range of vital interests in this region. For better or for worse, the U.S.-China relationship is becoming a defining factor in the relations among the Asia-Pacific nations. Third, the U.S. strategic shift toward Asia-Pacific is, as President Obama puts it, not a choice but a necessity. Although conflicts elsewhere, especially the ones in the Middle East, continue to draw U.S. attention and consume U.S. foreign policy resources, the United States is turning its focus toward China and Asia-Pacific. Fourth, in the mid-2000s, the United States and China made an unprecedented strategic goodwill exchange and agreed to blaze a new path out of the tragedy that often attends great power transition. Fifth, at this time of U.S. strategic reorientation and military rebalancing toward Asia-Pacific, the most dangerous consideration is that Asia-Pacific nations having disputes with China can misread U.S. strategic intentions and overplay the "U.S. card" to pursue their territorial interests and challenge China. Finally, territorial dispute is becoming an urgent issue in the Asia-Pacific. ; https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1526/thumbnail.jpg