Political-Security Environment in the Pacific: Evolutionary Change. The Political-Security Environment in the Pacific: Evolutionary Change

摘要

Three developments/factors appear to be critical in exploring the emergingpolitical-security environment in the Pacific. First is the dramatic decline of the Soviet threat. In the 1970s, by contributing to the intensification of the Sino-Soviet conflict and the Soviet-American competition, and the normalization of Sino-American relations, the Soviet threat resulted in a defacto alignment of the United States, Japan, the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), the Republic of Korea (ROK), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, Australia, and New Zealand against the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia./Despite their anomalous positions.