The security predicament of a new state: Philippine policy towards Japan, 1946-1956

• Main Author: Tana, Maria Thaemar C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2011
• Subjects: Philippines—Foreign relations—Japan; Japan—Foreign relations—Philippines; International Relations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/6096; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/13045/viewcontent/CDTG004980_P.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The thesis argues that, contrary to the conventional predictions of neocolonialism, the Philippines did not always follow the US lead in its foreign and domestic policy formation and pursued an essentially different agenda. As demonstrated in its relations with Japan and its conduct in the war crime...