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The U.S. Pivot to Asia - A Carte Blanche for Saudi Arabia?

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Title/Author:	The U.S. Pivot to Asia - A Carte Blanche for Saudi Arabia?/
Author:	Hansen, Jannick .
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	108 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International81-09.
Subject:	International relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27735912
ISBN:	9781392720318

The U.S. Pivot to Asia - A Carte Blanche for Saudi Arabia?
Hansen, Jannick .

The U.S. Pivot to Asia - A Carte Blanche for Saudi Arabia? - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 108 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09.

Thesis (M.A.)--Webster University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The paper at hand analyzes if the U.S. Middle East strategy has changed because of an increasing perception of a threat from China. Furthermore, it looks at the resulting implications regarding the status of Saudi Arabia. The hypothesis is that the growing perceived threat from China has been crucial for the U.S. desire for retrenchment in the Middle East, and led to a strategy of external or offshore balancing that has elevated the status of Saudi Arabia in the region, giving it something similar to a carte blanche for its regional actions. The paper attempts to fill gaps in the current literature on this topic, by connecting two regions under a holistic approach.The analysis finds that the U.S. perceives a growing threat from China as the country has narrowed the economic and military disparity between the two and has started to compete with U.S. interests in several areas. This is well described in U.S. national security strategies and other defense-oriented strategy papers that were part of this analysis. In 2008, Barack Obama campaigned on the promise to end America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and stop U.S. overextension in the Middle East. He took measures, like the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, trying to mitigate the Iranian nuclear threat, in order to allow the U.S. to retreat further from this region. Trump had a very different approach, but this analysis found both strategies served the same final goal of allowing the U.S. to reduce its presence in the region. By doubling down on the commitment to regional allies Israel and Saudi Arabia, President Trump attempted to contain Iran and create a balance of power more favorable to the U.S. The research found that this approach may be effective in the short term, but also comes with certain costs and risks. Offshore-balancing aims at supporting allies to balance against a common enemy when internal balancing is not an option. The physical balance of power therefore improves for the alliance as a whole, but not for the offshore balancer by himself. The risk of this approach for the U.S. is obviously a bigger dependence on its empowered allies. As alliances in an anarchic international order tend to change, the U.S. may find itself cut out of the Middle East once its interests no longer align with its current allies. As a result, this paper concludes that Saudi Arabia has indeed gained a significant amount of power and autonomy to use it under the current U.S. strategy.

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