The Impact of Identity Perception Factors on U.S. National Strategy

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10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_179How to use a DOI?

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Identity perception; the Self; the Other; Strategic competition; Strategic anxiety

Abstract

The national identity perception, consisting of self-perception and significant other perception, is an important starting point for state behavior and influences its judgment and choice of its own national interests. The U.S. national identity perception is a national strategic orientation based on the interaction of its two-way assessment of the self and the significant other, which is used to explain the logic of state behavior and elaborate the national image. The shift of U.S. policy toward China from “strategic engagement” to “strategic competition” is analyzed at the level of identity perception motivation, which reflects the transformation of U.S. role and status in the interaction between China and the United States. Faced with the objective reality of the relative decline of the country's comprehensive power, the Biden administration tried to build a cognitive opposition in the process of interaction with the important other, China, in order to achieve its purpose of diverting domestic conflicts, consolidating the alliance system and seeking a broader competitive advantage over China at the cognitive level.

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AU  - Lin Liu
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DA  - 2023/10/31
TI  - The Impact of Identity Perception Factors on U.S. National Strategy
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2023)
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