Why Regional Powers Follow the U.S.Geo-strategic Conception?A Case Study of India and Japan
This paper divides regional powers into three types:the most powerful,the secondary and the atypical ones.It tries to look for independent variables from the regional powers as followers and the U.S.as the initiator of the strategy,and set up an analytical framework explaining why regional powers follow the U.S.geo-strategic conception.Regional powers'anxiety of regional dominance and the U.S.attitude towards minilateralism have an impact on whether regional powers follow the U.S.geo-strategic conception.The change of regional balance of power,under the influence of domestic cognition,stimulates regional powers to generate anxiety of regional dominance,and makes regional powers have the impulse to follow the U.S.geo-strategic conception of containing the common"challenger".As an important means for the U.S to tempt regional powers to its side,minilateralism is appealing to regional powers in their following the U.S.geo-strategic conception.This paper chooses the process of India,a most powerful regional power,joining the QUAD,and the process of Japan,which has changed from an atypical regional power to a secondary regional power,promoting and participating in the QUAD,as test cases to verify the rationality of the explanatory framework of this paper.
the U.S.Geo-strategyQUADMinilateralismSino-Indian relationsSino-Japanese relations
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