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Since its emergence in the US strategic debate, with the publication of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s article in Foreign Policy,1 the “pivot” (or “rebalancing”) to the Asia-Pacific region has been mainly submitted to two different, though not mutually exclusive, interpretations.2 On the one hand, it has been perceived as a rhetorical and tactical move intended to offer to the Obama administration a “ticket out of the Middle East” as well as short-term reassurance measures toward US Asian allies, who had been facing a renewed Chinese regional assertiveness.3 On the other hand, the “pivot” can be viewed as the product of a long-term strategic thinking deriving from a twenty-first-century version of Harold Mackinder’s famous syllogism, adapting it to “who controls China controls the Asia Pacific region; who controls the Asia Pacific region controls the global economy; and who controls the global economy controls the world.”4
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de Rougé, G. (2015). The Political Economy of the US Rebalance: Revisiting the “Web of Linkages” between National Security and Economic Prosperity. In: Meijer, H. (eds) Origins and Evolution of the US Rebalance toward Asia. The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440372_5
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