碩士 / 國立政治大學 / 外交學系 / 106 / The Philippines’ relations with China have experienced turbulence under Benigno Aquino III administration, with the occurrence of various controversies and disputes in the South China Sea. In 2017, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) under the United Nations ruled in favor of the Philippines in its arbitration case against China over the South China Sea; however, the Philippines’ president Rodrigo Duterte has carried out a stunning U-turn in Philippines’ foreign policy since assuming office, making overtures towards China while berating traditional ally the United States.
I tried to use a Constructivist perspective in IR to analyze the Philippines’ foreign policy changing, considering that the ASEAN Way of multilateral consensus helped the Philippines and China to build the new external identity, norms and culture by continuing interactions between each other under the process of regional economic integration. The two nations then started the comprehensive economic cooperation. In terms of the South China Sea disputes, the Philippines had a policy adjustment. For example, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) and China announced the start of negotiations for a proposed code of conduct in the South China Sea before the end of 2017.
The Constructivist approach also explained that how the factor of power politics can affect the Philippines’ foreign policy. According to the Constructivism, factors that decided the Philippines’ foreign policy came from internal and external identities, and the factor of power politics constructed only part of external identity of the Philippines. Therefore, the United States and Japan could not dominate the Philippines’ external behavior though the two powers had been cozying up with the Philippines by increasing their economic and military cooperation in order to contain the rising China. In fact, the Philippines’ external identity included power politics, economic interdependence(with China), international norms(the ASEAN way), etc. Besides, the Philippines’ internal identity, including people’s expectation to economic growth and hatred to the birthright politics, also played an important role on forming the Philippines’ foreign action. It’s the combination of the external and internal identities resulted in the “U-turn” of the Philippines’ foreign policy under the Duterte’s administration.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/106NCCU5092009 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | 李格心 |
| Contributors | Lee, Min, 李明 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 152 |
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