CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Jelinek, Júda András |
|---|---|
| Title | Shifting Relations in South-East Asia: The changing Philippine-Sino-American foreign relations in the early era of the Duterte administration |
| Summary | This thesis investigates the significant change in the Philippine foreign policy towards the USA and China. The causes of the drastic turn in Philippine foreign policy will be examined by assessing the extent to which personal, internal or external factors, such as Duterte’s personal perceptions, domestic characteristics and pressure, or the shift in global power, contribute as decisive influences in the process. The research examines the Duterte administration’s foreign policy formulation by conducting a thorough multi-level and actor-specific foreign policy analysis and scrutinizing president Duterte’s English language speeches through qualitative content analysis. The thesis argues that the radical shift in the foreign relations of the Philippines under the rule of president Dutrerte will be of indicative nature of the underlying trend governing other countries’ future foreign policy conduct. Moreover, the thesis argues that the phenomena of China’s ascent as a great power will re-draw the map of power relations, initially in the unstable Asia-Pacific-region and later elsewhere, and this process ultimately will result in repercussions that will affect the international community of the global stage at large. |
| Supervisor | Achım Kemmerling |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/jelinek_juda.pdf |
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