Duterte’s Transactionalist Foreign Policy and the COVID-19 Crisis in the Philippines

Duterte’s Transactionalist Foreign Policy and the COVID-19 Crisis in the Philippines

2024. Asian Politics & Policy 16 (1): 113–129. This article contributes a new layer to the existing analyses of Duterte’s foreign policy by arguing that he epitomized a transactionalist approach to Philippine foreign policy. This approach favored bilateral to multilateral relations, focused on short-term wins rather than long-term foresight, adhered to a zero-sum worldview, rejected…

The Philippine Pivot to China and Russia: Duterte’s Foreign Policy Revisited

The Philippine Pivot to China and Russia: Duterte’s Foreign Policy Revisited

2022. Asia Review 12 (3): 451–477. Reexamining Rodrigo Duterte’s tirades against Western power blocs and the results of his diplomatic efforts to obtain Chinese and Russian assistance has never been more relevant, considering the measures his successor adopted to reinforce or reconfigure his foreign policy. To this end, the article revisits Duterte’s pivot to China and…