The keystone of world order

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 95-103

  Kwa, Chong Guan ^a   Tan, See Seng ^a  

^a Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies   (Singapore)

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EID: 0039737893     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/01636600152102241     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. See François Heisbourg, "American Hegemony? Perceptions of the U.S. Abroad," Survival 41, no. 4 (Winter 1999-2000): 5-19.
2. Richard Solomon, former U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, made this point during a visit to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1991. Straits Times, August 7, 1991.
3. Martin Walker, "Present at the Solution: Madeleine Albright's Ambitious Foreign Policy," World Policy Institute 14, no. 1 (1997): 2.
4. William Overholt, for instance, is scathing in his condemnation of Albright's tenure as the top U.S. diplomat, particularly her knowledge and policy toward East Asia. See William H. Overholt, "Bush and Asia: Solid, Centrist," Nomura: Asia Strategy (December 28, 2000), 2.
5. See, for example, Eric Jones, "Asia's Fate," National Interest 35 (Spring 1994): 18-28.
6. Kishore Mahbubani, "Preface," in Can Asians Think? (Singapore: Times Books International, 1998), 11.
7. We are reminded here of the moral realism of Reinhold Niebuhr, who once cautioned his fellow Americans, "We [the United States] cannot simply have our way, not even when we believe our way to have the 'happiness of mankind' as its promise." Ibid., 12.
8. Lee Siew Hua, "Bush Pledges to Keep the U.S. Engaged with the World," Straits Times, January 22, 2001, 1 (emphasis added).
9. See, for example, Arnfinn Jorgensen-Dahl, Regional Organization and Order in Southeast Asia (London: Macmillan, 1982).
10. Richard K. Betts, "Wealth, Power, and Instability: East Asia and the United States after the Cold War," International Security 18 (1993/1994): 64.
11. Heisbourg, "American Hegemony?".
12. Robert Kagan, "The Benevolent Empire," Foreign Policy (Summer 1998); Heisbourg, "American Hegemony?" 9.
13. Robert Kagan, "The Benevolent Empire," Foreign Policy (Summer 1998); Heisbourg, "American Hegemony?" 9.
14. Stewart Patrick, "America's Retreat from Multilateral Engagement," Current History 99 (December 2000): 430-439.
15. Ibid., p. 437.
16. Condoleezza Rice, "Promoting the National Interest," Foreign Affairs 79, no. 1 (January/February 2000): 49.
17. U.S. Institute of Peace, "Trialogue": U.S.-Japan-China Relations and Asian-Pacific Stability (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace, 1998).
18. See, for example, Richard K. Ashley, The Political Economy of War and Peace: The Sino-Soviet-American Triangle and the Modern Security Problematique (London: Frances Pinter, 1980).
19. Rice, "Promoting the National Interest," 56.
20. Richard N. Haass, The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States after the Cold War (New York: Brookings Institution, 1998).
21. Heisbourg, "American Hegemony?" 15-16.
22. John Gerard Ruggie, "International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order," in Stephen D. Krasner, ed., International Regimes (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983), 198.
23. As Sheldon Simon has written concerning, in his view, the Asia-Pacific region (and, by implication, East Asia as well): No real community consisting of common values, interlocking histories, and the free movement of peoples and firms across national boundaries exists yet in the region. Hence the reticence about creating political institutions that would entail policymaking based on legal procedures. Successful institutions require common views of objectives as well as cost and benefit sharing.
24. Sheldon W. Simon, "Security, Economic Liberalism, and Democracy: Asian Elite Perceptions of Post-Cold War Foreign Policy Values," NBR Analysis 7, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 5-32.
25. See, for example, the essays debating "restraint," "selective engagement," "cooperative security," and "primacy" as alternative frameworks for analyzing U.S. strategic choices in M. E. Brown et al, America's Strategic Choices, An International Security Reader (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000) (revised edition).
26. Robert B. Zoellick, "A Republican Foreign Policy," Foreign Affairs 79, no. 1 (January/February 2000): 63.
27. Inis L. Claude Jr., "The Balance of Power Revisited," Review of International Studies 15 (1989): 80.
28. Straits Times, January 22, 2001, 1.