US Imperialism and its Legacies in East Asia:Thucydides Trap or Thrasymachus Paradox?  

作　　者：Mario Maritan 

机构地区：[1]International Relations and Global Affairs,Social Science Division,Mahidol University International College,Mahidol University,Salaya,Thailand

出　　处：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》2024年第3期417-436,共20页复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）

摘　　要：The US presence in East Asia is not simply a result of the victory over Japan in WW2,but a legacy of the US takeover of the Spanish overseas empire in 1898.Today,the threat of war between China and the US has little to do with Allison's Thucydides trap,which is based on a misreading of Thucydides'work:It originates from what in China is seen as a US imperial presence that mirrors Western inter-ference in Chinese affairs during the so-called“century of humiliation.”China is an authoritarian state with regional hegemonic ambitions,yet the West has been endorsing other authoritarian states,even absolute monarchies,that fit its geopoliti-cal interests.Notwithstanding the purported US support of“freedom”and“democ-racy,”the US in East Asia has been carrying out a foreign policy that,as an exten-sion of misinterpretations of the Monroe Doctrine,is a legacy of empire.This legacy is too often overlooked,while overseas interests are justified on the basis of secu-rity concerns.Thucydides is relevant,but to compare the American and Athenian empires and their demise,not to drag China into US geopolitical discourse,when focus should have long been on Russia.Anti-colonial theory shows how interstate relations,in particular in the East Asian context,are not defined by Thucydides trap,but Thrasymachus paradox.

关 键 词：US-Chinese relations Thucydides trap East Asia Cross-strait relations IMPERIALISM 

分 类 号：D80[政治法律—政治学]