Rebalancing Us Strategy
Introduction: Rebalancing of power is a crucial study of strategic geography which helps the policy makers to shape mental map for the formulation of grand strategy on the basis their states interests, commitments and vulnerabilities within an imagined space. In the response of strategic position of a country within the strategic geography, a country has to rebalance its foreign and defense policy depending on different strategic important bloc. In the early 2011, United States (US) formulated its foreign and defense policy emphasizing on the Iraq and Afghanistan. But in the late 2011 and early 2012, a raising geopolitical importance of Asia gave, American administration, a signal that American policy had become imbalanced by its heavy dependency on Iraq and Afghanistan, and that it required to recalibrate its approach to better expose the long-term character of America’s interests and seismic geopolitical changes occurring in Asia. Besides because of the rising of India and China as hegemonic and economic power in Asia and Asia pacific region, the America has been rethinking about its foreign, security and defense policy focusing on the ‘Indo-Asia-pacific’ without confining in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This assignment is divided into five parts. In the first part defining the concept I want to outline the origination USA’s rebalancing policy. The second part of the assignment tries to mention some rational aspects in favor of it and the third part tries to sketch out a framework for USA’s rebalancing Asia policy. The fourth part of this assignment critically evaluated the rebalancing Asia policy of USA and the fifth part of this assignment concluded with the concluding remark.
Conceptual framework and Origins of the USA’s rebalancing Asia policy: Beginning in the fall of 2011, the Obama administration has issued a series of announcements and taken a series of steps to expand and intensify the already significant role of the United States in the Asia-Pacific
This assignment is divided into five parts. In the first part defining the concept I want to outline the origination USA’s rebalancing policy. The second part of the assignment tries to mention some rational aspects in favor of it and the third part tries to sketch out a framework for USA’s rebalancing Asia policy. The fourth part of this assignment critically evaluated the rebalancing Asia policy of USA and the fifth part of this assignment concluded with the concluding remark.
Conceptual framework and Origins of the USA’s rebalancing Asia policy: Beginning in the fall of 2011, the Obama administration has issued a series of announcements and taken a series of steps to expand and intensify the already significant role of the United States in the Asia-Pacific
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