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Title: Teoría y práctica de la estrategia hedging: Descifrando la política exterior japonesa ante la incertidumbre del ascenso de China
Author: González Pujol, Iván
Director: Vidal Lluc, Lluc  
Costa Fernández, Oriol
Abstract: Hedging is a comprehensive foreign policy strategy that combines competition and cooperation behaviours. Though hedging is a rather new term in the study of international relations, some academic approaches to this strategy have yielded relevant results for explaining changes in states' foreign policy. Our research takes these earlier contributions as a starting point to improve upon hedging strategy's theoretical and analytical framework. We demonstrate that hedging is a rational strategy in cases of systemic uncertainty. Under such systemic conditions, states receive incentives to behave incoherently in terms of competition and cooperation, leading to the resulting hedging strategy. This incoherence is a result of the interaction between short- and long+D2-term state interests and how policymakers perceive uncertainty. In addition, we also prove that our analytical model is empirically useful in highlighting the features of a state's foreign policy as well as the changes it undergoes over time.
Keywords: hedging
Japan
international relations theory
strategic studies
asian studies
political theory
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Issue Date: 20-Dec-2019
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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