Not between the devil and the deep blue sea: Singapore's hedging

• Main Author: Chang, Jun Yan
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; International-Relations; Southeast-Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163908
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Hedging is typically understood as a middle path straddling balancing/bandwagoning, the military/economic, and United States/China. This conventional understanding of hedging confuses risk and threat. It also makes the hedging concept non- falsifiable and thus analytically dubious, while further rei...