Dr Alexander M. Hynd1
1University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Biography:
Alexander M. Hynd is a Lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute, and a CI on the Green Energy Statecraft Project. He has previously held fellowships at UNSW Sydney, CSIS Indonesia, and Pacific Forum. His academic research, which examines the foreign policy identities and behaviours of second tier Indo-Pacific states, has previously been published in leading outlets, including International Studies Quarterly. He can be found @AlexanderMHynd
Abstract:
The economic statecraft literature is predominantly focused on the actions of great powers. To the extent that it does consider the strategies of second tier states, it has drawn too readily on outdated middle power behaviouralist models, narrow cases of ‘emerging powers’, and/or claims that this statecraft is inherently ‘reactive’ to the statecraft of great powers. This paper instead offers the novel concept of ‘secondary statecraft’ to refer to a number of novel economic statecraft strategies – both reactive and proactive – through which secondary states are cooperating and/or competing with each other and the great powers, in order to maximise their economic and security payoffs. This paper draws insights from the rich and varied case of South Korea, whose recent experiences of economic statecraft include reactions to US-China competition, but also, I argue, proactive attempts at secondary statecraft throughout the region: from North Korea, to ASEAN, to Australia.