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International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Advance Access originally published online on July 24, 2008
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 2008 8(3):353-377; doi:10.1093/irap/lcn011
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© The author [2008]. Published by Oxford University Press in association with the Japan Association of International Relations; all rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following International Relations of the Asia-Pacific issue: SPECIAL ISSUE: Research outcomes from the AsiaBarometer project [View the issue table of contents]

Hierarchy and the role of the United States in the East Asian security order

Evelyn Goh

St Anne's College, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HS, UK
E-mail: evelyn.goh{at}politics.ox.ac.uk

To construct a coherent account of East Asia's evolving security order, this article treats the United States not as an extra-regional actor, but as the central force in constituting regional stability and order. It proposes that there is a layered regional hierarchy in East Asia, led by the United States, with China, Japan, and India constituting layers underneath its dominance. The major patterns of equilibrium and turbulence in the region since 1945 can be explained by the relative stability of the US position at the top of the regional hierarchy, with periods of greatest insecurity being correlated with greatest uncertainty over the American commitment to managing regional order. Furthermore, relationships of hierarchical assurance and hierarchical deference help to explain critical puzzles about the regional order in the post-Cold War era.

Received for publication January 12, 2008. Accepted for publication July 3, 2008.


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