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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title
  2. p. i
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  1. Series page
  2. pp. ii-iii
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  1. Copyright Page
  2. p. iv
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vi-vii
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  1. Figures and Tables
  2. pp. viii-ix
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. 1. Introduction
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  1. 2. A Theory of Compound Containment
  2. pp. 9-35
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  1. 3. The Absence of Britain's Compound Containment against Germany, 1898-1914
  2. pp. 36-60
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  1. 4. US Compound Containment of Japan, 1939-1941
  2. pp. 61-78
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  1. 5. US Compound Containment of the Soviet Union, 1947-1950
  2. pp. 79-94
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  1. 6. Fluctuations in US Response to the Soviet Union, 1979-1985
  2. pp. 95-109
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  1. 7. The Absence of US Compound Containment against China, 2009-2016
  2. pp. 110-136
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  1. 8. Conclusion
  2. pp. 137-147
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 148-196
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  1. Notes (Continued)
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  1. Index
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