lecture_slides-week 2-jentleson 2a asia hist bkgrnd ww rev

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21stCentury

American Foreign Policy

Dr. Bruce W. Jentleson


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Unit 2

Asias Rising Strategic Importance

2A: United States and Asia: Historical Background

2B: US-China Relations

2C: US-Japan Relations

2D: North Korea Issues

2E: US-India Relations


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INDIAN

OCEAN

PACIFIC

OCEAN

C H I N A

RUSSIA

JAPAN

PHILIPPINES

VIETNAM

KYRGYZSTAN

TAJIKISTAN

PAKISTAN

SRI LANKA

NO RTH KOREA

SOUTHKOREA

BANGLADESH

BHUTANNEPAL

CAMBODIA

THAILAND

LAOSMYANMAR

MALAYSIA

MONGOLIA

INDIA

KAZAKHSTAN

PAPUANEW

GUINEATIMO R-LESTE(EAST TIMO R)

BRUNEI

SINGAPORE

TAIWAN

A U ST RA LI A

I N D O N E S I A

East

Asia

East Asia

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Go over map using pen


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2A

United States and Asia: Historical Backgro

Asias long history long before relations with the Uni

Focus on the 19thand early 20thcenturies

Apply our 4 Ps Analytic Framework

I. Prosperity

II. Power

III. Peace

IV. Principles


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KissingerZhou En-lai, too soon to tell,sense of history


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I. Prosperity

US economic interests in trade w/Asia

1853-54: Commodore Perrys voyage to Japan

Opening after many years of intentional isolation

Established commercial and diplomatic relations

1898: Spanish-American War

Philippines taken as a US colony, value of Manila as a port


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Objectives

Go back to regional map when discussPhilippines


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1899: Open Door policy towards China

US competes with European powers for access and influen

Some support for Chinese territorial and administrative an

Dollar Diplomacy (early 20thcentury): use America

economic power for both economic interests (Prospgeopolitical ones (Power)

China (also Latin America)


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II. Power

19thcentury Naval Sea Power

Alfred Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon

(1890)

US Navy 7thlargest in the world by 1893

Other parts of the world but Asia in particular

Hawaii annexed in 1897-98, Samoa acquired in 1900

Competition with European powers

Also with Japan (2C, US-Japan relations)


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Gunboat Diplomacy: using naval forces in limited

ways for diplomatic gains and protecting economic i

China, 1920s: examples

1921 established a Yangtze River patrol to protect US

and property in China

1927 along with Japan and European navies sent warshShanghai to protect foreign economic interests during

civil war


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III. Peace1905: President Theodore Roosevelt brokers Portsmou

between Russia and Japan ending their war


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IV. Principles

Both consistent with AND in tension with

Example: Philippines

Filipinos wanted independence not shift from Spanish colo

one

War of Independence,1989-1901: 125,000 US troops fough

down the Filipino independence movement 1899, Emilio Aguinaldo: I did not come back home to the P

to make war on the Spaniards for their [the US] benefit, b

purpose of our own liberty and independence.


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Summary

Historical background 4 Ps, mixed objectives

Next: US-China relations, focus on curre

agenda Assigned readings


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Citations

East Asia Map: Bruce W. Jentleson,AmeForeign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice

21stCentury (New York: W.W. Norton, 2

5thedition), p. 32

Treaty of Portsmouth image: Unknown

The Japan-America Society of New Ham

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