Compound containment : a reigning power's military-economic countermeasures against a challenging power / Dong Jung Kim

1. Introduction .-- 2. A Theory of Compound Containment .-- 3. The Absence of Britain’s Compound Containment against Germany, 1898–1914 .-- 4. US Compound Containment of Japan, 1939–1941 .-- 5. US Compound Containment of the Soviet Union, 1947–1950 .-- 6. Fluctuations in US Response to the Soviet Union, 1979–1985 .-- 7. The Absence of US Compound Containment against China, 2009–2016 .-- 8. Conclusion.

When does a reigning great power of the international system supplement military containment of a challenging power by restricting its economic exchanges with that state? Scholars of great power politics have traditionally focused on examining a reigning power's military containment of a challenging power. In direct contrast, Compound Containment demonstrates that these conventional studies are flawed without a sound understanding of the multilayered aspects of containment strategy in great power politics. Since economic capacity and military power are intimately linked to one another, countering a challenging power requires addressing both economic and military dimensions. Nonetheless, this nexus of security and economy in a reigning power's response to a challenging power cannot be explained by traditional theories that dominate research in international security. Author Dong Jung Kim fills a gap in the scholarship on great power competition by investigating when a reigning power will make its military containment of a challenging power "compound" by simultaneously employing restrictive economic measures. Its main theoretical claims are corroborated by an analysis of key historical cases of reigning power-challenging power competition. This book also offers policy prescriptions for the United States by examining whether the United States is in a position to complement military containment of China with restrictive economic measures