Cooperation or Conflict: Great Power Support and Interactions among States

• In Event: Interactions, Ideas, and Identity

Brief Overview

In this paper, I explore whether support signaled by a Great Power to its protégé affects the interactions with other states. It finds out that the U.S. support to Japan tends to have a negative effect on the latter’s interactions with China.

Author

• Weidong Zhang, The University of Texas at El Paso