The claim that the United States seeks primacy – a concept distinct from military superiority – in the Asia-Pacific is fundamentally wrong.
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Van Jackson
Van Jackson is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, and the Defence and Strategy Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies in Wellington, New Zealand. He was previously a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, and from 2009–14 served as a strategist and Asia policy adviser in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense. An earlier version of this article was presented at the 6th Annual Australia–Japan Dialogue in Tokyo on 9 December 2016. This version draws from the author’s chapter in Michael Heazle and Andrew O'Neil (eds), China’s Rise and Australia–Japan–US Relations: Primacy and Leadership in East Asia (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2018).
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The author would like to thank Andrew O'Neil and Michael Heazle for their helpful comments.
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