Contemporary Southeast Asia · 1994 · 22 citations · 1 references
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Access to the large Asian market and the prevention of any preponderant regional power have been the fundamental ob jectives of American policy for more than a century. This article discusses two important pillars of American hegemony in the Asia-Pacific: bilateral security arrangements, and forward deploy ment of sufficient military power. It notes that it is no longer in the interest of the United States to maintain the same hegemonic arrangement it had with regional countries. The absence of any tangible threat and increasing U.S. budgetary problems have created pressures for Washington to change its regional posture to one of Jinking regional economies to the economic security of the United States.
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