| Summary: | 碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 國際事務碩士學位學程 === 106 === This study investigates the changing development of the Philippines Strategic Policy on the South China Sea Issue. 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 multi-level and actor-specific foreign policy analysis and scrutinizing president Duterte’s key foreign policy related English language speeches through qualitative content analysis. The research seeks to answer the following questions: First, ”Is the Duterte administration seeking to resolve the South China Sea conflict through political bargaining with China?” Second, ”Is the turn in the South China Sea conflict signaling the shift in global power and the continuous erosion of US hegemony?” Third, ”Is the significant realignment in the Philippine foreign policy towards China part of a larger and powerful trend, which will manifest itself first in the foreign policy conduct of the countries in the proximity of China and gradually of those further away from it?” This research is significant as it aims to serve as a valuable contribution to the field of International Relations by providing an up-to-date and innovative analysis of the dynamics, processes, and directions of the contemporary Philippine strategic policy of the Duterte administration towards the USA and China
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