As a strategic means of accumulating strength and alleviating external security pressures,strategic retrenchment has become a major choice for some rising powers.However,the phenomenon of strategic retrenchment among rising powers has yet been theorised.Existing studies often focus on the strategic retrenchment of hegemonic powers during the order replacement period to address the challenges of rising powers,while neglecting the aspect of rising powers choosing limited strategic retrenchment during their rise.Based on the analysis of the timing of strategic adjustment,the allocation of strategic resources,and the revision of strategic objectives,this paper connects expansion and contraction as strategic options;and examines two strategic retrenchment cases of Bismarck's Germany and the early Song Dynasty's reunification.Both cases involved strategic retrenchment based on domestic political logic,thereby delaying,or even avoiding,the emergence of an order war with the hegemonistic powers,despite the pres-ence of considerable external expectations.Investigating the internal political mechanisms by which rising powers maintain their strategic stability in the com-petition between great powers helps to rethink the strategic choices of rising powers under the great transformation of the international order.
关键词
战略收缩/文武关系/国家汲取能力/俾斯麦德国/北宋统一战争
Key words
Strategic Retrenchment/Civil-Military Relations/National Absorp-tive Capacities/Bismarck's Germany/Song Dynasty Unification War
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