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dc.contributor.advisorOgden, Chris (Christopher)
dc.contributor.advisorLang, Anthony F.
dc.contributor.authorSchulenburg, Rupert
dc.coverage.spatial164en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-26T16:06:25Z
dc.date.available2023-05-26T16:06:25Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-13
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/27688
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I explain why and how U.S. strategy towards China changed between the Obama and Trump administrations, and between the Trump and Biden administrations (2009 – February 2022). I use a neoclassical realist model as a theoretical framework to analyse why changes in U.S. strategy occurred at different levels of causality (the system, state, and individual). I use an ‘ends and means’ framework to analyse how strategy changed in terms of key ‘ends and means’, which also includes applying a schema to my analysis to consistently assess the significance of strategic adjustment; a change in ends is coded as a major change while a change in means is coded as a minor change. I use these frameworks to analyse two case studies: Taiwan and U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific, and sovereignty and maritime disputes in the South China Sea. Based on my analysis, I find that there were no major changes in U.S. strategy between the three administrations, only minor changes. I also show that while changes and continuities in U.S. strategy can largely be explained at the systemic level, layering in domestic and individual-level variables is required to provide a more complete explanation.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectUnited Statesen_US
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectBarack Obamaen_US
dc.subjectDonald Trumpen_US
dc.subjectJoe Bidenen_US
dc.subjectIndo-Pacificen_US
dc.subjectNeoclassical realismen_US
dc.subjectXi Jinpingen_US
dc.subjectTaiwanen_US
dc.subjectInternational securityen_US
dc.subjectSecurityen_US
dc.subjectAlliancesen_US
dc.subject.lccE183.8C6S3
dc.subject.lcshObama, Baracken
dc.subject.lcshTrump, Donald, 1946-en
dc.subject.lcshBiden, Joseph R., Jr.en
dc.subject.lcshXi, Jinpingen
dc.subject.lcshSecurity, Internationalen
dc.subject.lcshUnited States--Foreign relations--Chinaen
dc.subject.lcshChina--Foreign relations--United Statesen
dc.titleU.S. strategic adjustment and the second 'loss of China': change and continuity in the China strategies of the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrationsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelMastersen_US
dc.type.qualificationnameMPhil Master of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17630/sta/483


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