Theorizing Hedging: Explaining Shifts and Variations in Alignment Choices (Elements in Indo-Pacific Security) - Softcover

Kuik, Cheng-Chwee

 
9781009589413: Theorizing Hedging: Explaining Shifts and Variations in Alignment Choices (Elements in Indo-Pacific Security)
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ISBN 10: 1009589415 ISBN 13: 9781009589413
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2026

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Hedging, not balancing or bandwagoning, is the modal behavior of the non-great powers under uncertainty. Despite its prevalence as a state alignment choice, hedging has remained an undertheorized subject in the study of international relations. This Element presents one of the first theoretical works on strategic hedging in world politics. Tracing the multidisciplinary roots of hedging as an instinctive human behavior, I contend that sovereign actors hedge in ways similar to commodity traders, farmers, fund managers, academic writers, politicians, and individuals in competitive organizations under conditions of high-stakes and high-uncertainties. I then develop a two-level theoretical framework to explain when, how and why states hedge, rather than balance or bandwagon. Using selected Indo-Pacific countries as empirical cases, I conclude that while structural-level conditions largely explain the shifts in alignment decisions (e.g., from non-hedging to hedging, or vice versa), domestic factors explain the variations in hedging choices.

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1009589415
ISBN 13 
9781009589413
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
118
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