【英文】哈佛报告：重新调整美国和法国的印太战略（105页）

英文研究报告 2022年09月16日 08:39 管理员

France and the United States are the two Western countries with the highest sovereign interests in the Indo-Pacifc region. Ensuring sovereign integrity and the security of their citizens are the frst strategic priority of both nations. Furthermore, as longtime allies, Washington and Paris share mutually supporting interests that align their geopolitical security within the diplomatic, economic, and military spheres. Traditionally thought of as national interests, many now transcend borders to refect inclusive interests of both Washington and Paris versus the exclusivity of a single nation-state. Tere is an increasingly common strategic vision that can bolster regional security by developing physical and digital connectivity to ensure a free, safe, and open Indo-Pacifc. Shared strategic vision requires apt diagnosis of the state of play before consideration of potential policy prescriptions that might strengthen a unifed approach to the Indo-Pacifc.

Foundational bedrock interests provide underlying structure and focus for both states. Strategists in Washington and Paris must continue to focus on frst-level interests including maintaining productive relations with regional great powers to manage crisis and stave of any great power confict, ensure the survival and active cooperation of key regional allies, and protect the viability and stability of major global systems including trade, fnancial markets, and energy. Second-level interests hold areas where there may be less consensus on the ways and means but implicit agreement on the nexus of interests and values: preventing, deterring, and reducing the use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons anywhere and preventing regional proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Furthermore, safeguarding of democracy at home and around the world has increasingly become one of the highest second-level interests and might now be regarded as vital in what some have called a renewed competition between democracy and authoritarianism.