Compound containment : : a reigning power's military-economic countermeasures against a challenging power / / Dong Jung Kim.

• Author: Kim, Dong Jung, 1981-
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor, Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, 2022.; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

When does a reigning great power of the international system supplement military containment of a challenging power by restricting its economic exchanges with that state? Scholars of great power politics have traditionally focused on examining a reigning power's military containment of a challenging power. In direct contrast, Compound Containment demonstrates that these conventional studies are flawed without a sound understanding of the multilayered aspects of containment strategy in great power politics. Since economic capacity and military power are intimately linked to one another, countering a challenging power requires addressing both economic and military dimensions. Nonetheless, this nexus of security and economy in a reigning power's response to a challenging power cannot be explained by traditional theories that dominate research in international security. Author Dong Jung Kim fills a gap in the scholarship on great power competition by investigating when a reigning power will make its military containment of a challenging power "compound" by simultaneously employing restrictive economic measures. Its main theoretical claims are corroborated by an analysis of key historical cases of reigning power-challenging power competition. This book also offers policy prescriptions for the United States by examining whether the United States is in a position to complement military containment of China with restrictive economic measures.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Theory of Compound Containment -- 3. The Absence of Britain's Compound Containment against Germany, 1898-1914 -- 4. US Compound Containment of Japan, 1939-1941 -- 5. US Compound Containment of the Soviet Union, 1947-1950 -- 6. Fluctuations in US Response to the Soviet Union, 1979-1985 -- 7. The Absence of US Compound Containment against China, 2009-2016 -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Index