Tez Türü: Bütünleşik Doktora
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Florida International University, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
Tez Danışmanı: Felix E. Martin
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2019
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Özet:
This dissertation examines a type of variance in state behavior
pertaining to international conflict and cooperation. Rather than
confining this discussion to a binary understanding of state behavior,
between revisionism and status-quo seeking, it endeavors to provide a
nuanced discussion of the type of grand-strategic orientations states
undertake in pursuit of their interests. It poses the question, “under
what circumstances do states aspire to uphold, seek to reform, or
challenge international order?” In doing so, the study helps to
understanding the gamut of behaviors that purportedly satisfied or
revisionist states display. System-level material opportunities that are
filtered by elite-preferences and beliefs about international order at
the unit-level account for the type of grand strategies states will
adopt. Through congruency testing, the dissertation identifies and
explains order-conforming, order-reforming, order-retrenching, and
order-challenging grand strategies. In this context, the dissertation
addresses debates within Structural Realism on status-quo and
revisionist states as well as grand strategy formation to produce an
eclectic mid-range theory of state behavior. The hypotheses generated by
this theoretical undertaking are tested through longitudinal,
comparative case study examinations of U.S. and Chinese grand strategies
in the post-Cold War period.