The U.S.Foreign Affairs On Philippine Under The Asymmetric Alliance

Alliance is one of the core topics in the field of international relations. This paper attempts to analyze the relationship between the United States and Philippines with the perspective of alliance. Because there are huge GDP gap between the United States and Philippines, so they are defined as non-symmetry alliance. Based on this, this paper focuses on analyzing American’s foreign policy change on Philippines with the perspective of threat, by combination the theory on alliance of realism, liberal institutionalism, constructivist understanding.After World War II, the United States formed an alliance with the Philippines, but due to their huge position disparity, which determined that it is the threat facing by the U.S. dominant the United States foreign policy change on the Philippines. Although Philippines tried to use its strategic position to influence U.S. foreign policy, However, this effect is minimal. In this asymmetry alliance, the threat facing by the United States, including the reality threat of a big challenge to the country, and the threat generated by different ideologies. The United States would make adjustments to the Philippine foreign policy according to the different threats.The U.S.-Philippine alliance has gone through, two periods since its establishment:the pre-Cold War and post-Cold War period. The two periods can be divided into four stages:firstly, when the Cold War began, the US and Philippine forged a treaty and formed alliance. During this period the United States faced strong communist ideology threat, and the threat of Soviet’s rising, so, in order to resist the threat, the United States took an active diplomacy to Philippines. Secondly, the alliance experienced continuous development and consolidation, the Soviet threat and the communist threat facing by the United States during this period have reached a peak, thus American choose to strengthen the cooperation with Philippines; thirdly, after the ending of the Cold War, the U.S.-Philippine alliance went through a trough time, the real threat and cognitive threat facing by the United States during this period have subsided, so the united states alienated the relationship with Philippines; Finally, with the global anti-terrorism and implementation of the strategy to return to Asia, the US-Philippine alliance begins to remodeling and warming, this time the United States faced with a serious threat of terrorism, and the illusion of Chinese enemies, thus enhancing the contact with Philippines and keeping closely relationships.