O balanço estratégico regional no Leste Asiático pós-Guerra na Ucrânia

The named report presents the activities developed in the aim of the research project “name”. The research was conducted through qualitative analysis of the security and foreign policy dynamics of the East Asian Regional Complex, considering both the interactions of the countries within the regional context and the influence of external great powers. The main activities involved extensive literature review in the aims of strategic studies and regional security in East Asia, with the writing of objective reports about the academic literature analysed and security/ foreign policy white papers from the framed countries - Japan, South Korea, and the United States. The main findings indicate two major strategies adopted by East Asian countries: (i) political hedging, and (ii) balancing with the United States; and two great power policies that helped to shape the regional security dynamics: (i) the Asian-Pivot, conducted by the United States, and (ii) the Striving for Achievement (SFA) policy, by China. The findings demonstrate that, in times of higher US engagement in the region, China increases its assertiveness as well, moving the neighbours to a more balancing posture, while in other cases, they prefer to pursue the hedging. With the Ukrainian War this dynamic was shaken, since the US commitment with its allies was put in question, and the East Asian countries started to their own ways to find security, and controversially, put them closer to China.