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Journal of International Security Studies
enough attention in the past for a long time. Unlike peace, reconciliation occurs between
feuding states, which is a long-term development from “cold peace” to “warm peace”
and from “unstable peace” to “stable peace”. It is not only a conflict resolution tactic, but
also a way to heal a nation’s psychological and spiritual trauma. The existing research on
reconciliation between countries focuses more on description and less on interpretation.
In addition, most research efforts have been devoted to different cases rather than
theories, which leads to a series of shortcomings like the negligence of phased
characteristics and the separation of politics and economy. The occurrence of interstate
reconciliation is essentially a political action. It is either the result of hierarchy or a
balance made by the state between maintaining domestic political legitimacy and
national security when faced with serious security threats. The deepening interstate
reconciliation derives from the interaction among multiple complex factors such as
internal and external forces, as well as political and economic elements that constitute
three interconnected mechanisms: confirmation mechanism for historical facts,
compensation and correction mechanism for injustice, and multi-level social integration
and exchange mechanism. The realization of reconciliation between countries will bring
about a broad and far-reaching impact, significantly changing the political and economic
environment within separate countries and promoting national and regional peace, as
well as regional economic integration.
[Keywords] inter-state reconciliation, conflict resolution, security threat, peace,
political economy
[Author] WANG Gaoyang, Lecturer, School of Politics and Public Administration, Center
for Contemporary Capitalism Studies, Zhengzhou University (Zhengzhou, 450001).

131 Missile Defense and U.S. Extended Deterrence Policy
CHENG Zhihuan and LI Bin
[Abstract] US security commitments of extended deterrence to its allies serve as a
significant foundation for the relations between US and its allies. During the Cold
War, the US extended deterrence had been working mainly through its nuclear
umbrella. In order to get adapted to the new post–cold war security environment and
meet the security demands of its old and new allies, the United States began to
provide security commitments for its allies by virtue of missile defense cooperation,
which means the US attaches equal importance to missile defense and nuclear
umbrella in its deterrence provision. Developing missile defense partnerships with
its allies will surely exert impact on the US extended deterrence system. The
so-called positive impact is that missile defense cooperation enables more allies to
participate in and contribute to collective defense, which has greatly strengthened
the centripetal force of the US alliance network and the US military leadership. The
so-called negative impact is that missile defense system cannot be absolutely reliable
and effective, indicating that the US needs to invest more money for the effectiveness
of its extended deterrence policy. Nowadays, the United States has stepped up efforts
to get its allies together in a new round of global strategic competition. Against this
background, the sustainability of the extended deterrence model featuring missile
defense needs to be tested.
[Keywords] United States, extended deterrence, nuclear umbrella, missile defense,
security assurance
[Authors] CHENG Zhihuan, Ph.D. Student, School of Social Science, Tsinghua
University; LI Bin, Professor, Department of International Relations, Tsinghua
University (Beijing, 100084).
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