Introduction Toward the end of his first term, President Barack Obama's election promise to reduce the American military presence in the Middle East and Afghanistan led to a general re-evaluation of priorities. What eventuated was a series of phrases to describe the new foreign policy posture. These included "rebalancing to Asia", the "pivot to Asia" and the "pivot to the Pacific". The two principal drivers of the new posture were identified by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a key November 2011 Foreign Policy article as winding down of the military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan the "new global realities" of the Asia-Pacific Century. The juxtaposition of the two elements gave the American policy objectives a balance of power orientation with a military emphasis. The logic of "rebalancing" the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific in the wake of the growing ascendency of China is basic International Relations 101. The repositioning of US military assets into the Pacific has all the essential characteristics of classic geopolitical balance of power theory. A conservative American think tank phrased the pivot to Asia in just these terms in a recent assessment when it concluded, "the most significant problem for the United States in Asia today is China's rising power, influence, and expectations of regional pre-eminence."
基於國際安全環境多元變化與安全威脅多樣化走向,國際事務與戰略的研究在後冷戰時代迄今面臨傳統與非傳統的挑戰:包括國際行為體的多樣化軍事科技激化衝突本質,以及全球化下經貿相互依存的態勢,如何跳脫傳統國際關係理論途徑,進而思考有利於台灣主體性與優勢性的戰略與計畫作為,成為本所建構淡江戰略學派,以台灣本土角度分析國際戰略與安全理論與實際的具體作為。
本書篇章具有兩種不同層次之使用目的: 前二篇主述APA與Chicago(Turabian)格式中文學術寫作應用,目的在於提供人文社會學者、研究生與學術出版編輯者共同使用之中文學術論文引文格式規範。 然而,現行許多中文期刊為了追求學術國際化,希望擁有被國際引文索引資料庫收錄之成就,本書最後一篇即著重中文引文格式羅馬化之應用,進一步方便西方學者與索引編製者全面識讀中文引文之用,此羅馬化篇章,將國際化視作友善環境之手段,擬定了學術期刊編輯人員後製中文羅馬化之參照規則,俾使中文學術期刊能於未來申請國際引文索引資料庫收錄時,奠定成功基礎。