The U.S. Neo-conservatism and Its Views onTaiwan Strait Policy / 美國新保守主義之臺海政策思維

碩士 / 國立臺灣大學 / 政治學研究所 / 97 / This paper surveys and investigates the ideas and impact on U.S. foreign policy directed toward the Taiwan Strait of a small but influential group of liberals who became known as the Neo-conservatives.

The focus of this research is on the transformation of the Neo-conservatives from liberal Democrats to conservative Republicans, and how they have viewed and influenced the strategic debate over cross-strait issues since the Cold War.

The thesis contains three main points. First, that the Neo-conservatives’ steadfast ant-communism was based on their historical experience and accompanied by a belief in the superiority of American democratic values; second, that the Neo-conservatives saw Europe as the main venue of superpower rivalry—the strategic center of gravity—during the Cold War, and now perceive that the new strategic center of concern is shifting to East Asia; and therefore thirdly, that Neo-conservatives have asserted a policy of strategic containment rather than engagement regarding China. They have sought to strengthen defensive relationships with key Asian democratic alliances instead of adopting a more “Sino-centric” approach and abandoning strategic ambiguity for the more current concept of strategic clarity. These assertions have had considerable influence on the triangle relationship between the U.S., Taiwan and China.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/097NTU05227029
Date January 2009
CreatorsYi-peng Liang, 梁毅鵬
ContributorsChen-dong Tso, 左正東
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format116

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