Table of Contents

1. Trend Anxiety and Conflict Intention: Defensive Aggression in the Competition for Regional Dominance, 2. The “Philip Trap” and the Strategic Overdraft of the Rise of a Sea-Land Composite Power, 3. The “William's Dilemma” and the Strategic Choice of the Rise of a Sea-Land Composite Power, 4. Same Color Competition and Different Color Complementarity: Strategic Counterattack Caused by the Thinking of “Developing Both Sea and Land”, 5. Reverse Strategy: The Check and Balance the Weak, 6. How Can a Weighted Country Raise Its Own Price?: A Research on the “Corinth Puzzle” in Alliance Politics under the Bipolar Pattern, 7. The Analysis of the Utility of Geostrategic Psychology in Cracking the “Sandwich” Check-and-Balance Structure of Rising Countries, 8. Edge Trapping: An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Anti-containment Strategy under the Bipolar System, 9. Role Cognition and Discourse Construction: The Political Logic of Selective Intervention by Hegemonic Powers, 10. Unintentionally Doing Evil without Punishment: The Application of Geostrategic Psychology in Avoiding Hegemonic Containment

About the Author

Jiang Peng is Associate Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, China. His research fields include the theory of Western international relations, theory of the rise of great powers, geopolitics and history of modern international relations.