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Hedging Against China: Japanese Strategy Towards A Rising Power López i Vidal, Lluc Pelegrín Solé, Àngels Relacions internacionals Seguretat de l'Estat Desenvolupament polític Guerra freda Japó International relations Internal security Political development Cold War Japan Debates about how states deal with rising powers have been mainly concentrated on a continuum comprising on balancing and bandwagoning strategies. While theory has principally offered realist and liberal explanations, Japanese behavior vis-à-vis China does not match with them. Japan is not powerful enough to balance against China but remains too strong to bandwagon. Accordingly, Tokyo is pursuing a mixed strategy of both containment and engagement, which may be better described as a hedging strategy against Beijing. This article analyzes which strategies states can adopt when dealing with a rising power and proposes a framework to analyze Japan's recent policy towards China based on Kuik's analysis. We argue that Japan's hedging strategy towards China is consistent with how middle-power states deal with rising power. 2018-10-18T10:24:47Z 2020-07-01T05:10:21Z 2018 2018-10-18T10:24:48Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 1479-9855 https://hdl.handle.net/2445/125428 675140 eng Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1080/14799855.2017.1333983 Asian Security, 2018, vol. 14, num. 2, p. 193-211 https://doi.org/10.1080/14799855.2017.1333983 (c) Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 19 p. application/pdf Taylor & Francis (Routledge) Articles publicats en revistes (Economia)