Jilin University (North East Asia Research Center, Adjunct-Professor)
Vladivostok, Russian Federation
After the Second World War Pacific Asia didn’t demonstrate stable collective security organization, like NATO in Europe. Despite of polarization of the regional international relations system, there are still a few chances to form effective multilateral block here. The USA are focused on containing China and thus tend to shape flexible minilateral cooperative formats, where common values and interests are also were elaborated. Nevertheless, all Washington’s partners prefer to act under their own specific logic. The present article sets goal to assess effectiveness of the existing mechanisms with the acute accent on Japan’s and South Korea’s interests as the major U.S. allies in the Pacific. The practical interest also lays in examining the ability to have systemic affection on international relations in East Asia, which was uncovered by completing research’s tasks. Author concludes that the USA would inevitably continue implementing strategy based on flexible minilateral security cooperation schemes aimed to prevent any centralized power within the Indo-Pacific. Nevertheless, Washington seems to avoid from direct military clash with its potential rival (China, Russia, DPRK), intensively engaging allies’ capacity and resources.
East Asia, regional security, international relations, QUAD, AUKUS
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