Hard Interests, Soft Illusions Southeast Asia and American Power

InHard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia-Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam-that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important...

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Hlavní autor:	Hamilton-Hart, Natasha
Médium:	E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Ithaca Cornell University Press 2012
Vydání:	1
Témata:	america and east asia american overseas power ASIAN STUDIES balance of power Decision making Elites Foreign policy Foreign relations Geopolitics Geopolitics > Southeast Asia Geopolitics > United States International Relations INTERNATIONAL STUDIES POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General Southeast Asia Southeast Asia > Foreign relations > United States southeast asian economics southeast asian politics U.S.A United States United States > Foreign relations > Southeast Asia international relations american overseas power southeast asian economics POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY INTERNATIONAL STUDIES balance of power ASIAN STUDIES foreign policy america and east asia southeast asian politics
ISBN:	9780801450549, 0801450543, 9780801464508, 0801464501
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Shrnutí:	InHard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia-Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam-that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform specific foreign policy decisions and form the basis for broad orientations of alignment, opposition, or nonalignment. Such foundational beliefs, however, do not simply reflect objective facts and reasoning processes. Hamilton-Hart argues that they are driven by both interests-in this case the political and economic interests of ruling groups in Southeast Asia-and illusions. Hamilton-Hart shows how the information landscape and standards of professional expertise within the foreign policy communities of Southeast Asia shape beliefs about the United States. These opinions frequently rest on deeply biased understandings of national history that dominate perceptions of the past and underlie strategic assessments of the present and future. Members of the foreign policy community rarely engage in probabilistic reasoning or effortful knowledge-testing strategies. This does not mean, she emphasizes, that the beliefs are insincere or merely instrumental rationalizations. Rather, cognitive and affective biases in the ways humans access and use information mean that interests influence beliefs; how they do so depends on available information, the social organization and practices of a professional sphere, and prevailing standards for generating knowledge.
Bibliografie:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-236)and index SourceType-Books-1 ObjectType-Book-1 content type line 7
ISBN:	9780801450549 0801450543 9780801464508 0801464501
DOI:	10.7591/9780801464034