Malaysia’s Hedging Strategy Towards China Under Mahathir Mohamad (2018–2020): Direct Engagement, Limited Balancing, and Limited Bandwagoning.
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1868102620964219" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1868102620964219</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1868102620964219" target="_blank" >10.1177/1868102620964219</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Malaysia’s Hedging Strategy Towards China Under Mahathir Mohamad (2018–2020): Direct Engagement, Limited Balancing, and Limited Bandwagoning.
Original language description
To mitigate the risks and maximise the opportunities arising from China’s great power behaviour, Malaysia employed a hedging strategy during Mahathir Mohamad’s second term as prime minister. From 2018 until 2020, the middle power Malaysia applied direct engagement and elements of limited balancing and limited bandwagoning in a flexible yet consistent manner. Neither China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) nor its actions in the South China Sea caused a sea change in Malaysia’s hedging strategy. Crucially, the policies towards China were embedded in omnidirectional, friendly, and well-balanced relations with the United States, Japan, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Theoretically, this contribution applies an updated concept of hedging, initially introduced by Cheng-Chwee Kuik. As an important innovation, it adds a specific component to assess the perceptions of the political leader(s) of risks and opportunities related to the hedging target as well as the strategic value of potential balancing partners.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
ISSN
1868-4874
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2020
Issue of the periodical within the volume
49(1)
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
106-131
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85105367945