TY  - BOOK
AU  - WIEGAND Krista E.
AU  - BEUCK Erik
TI  - Strategic selection: Philippine arbitration in the South China Sea dispute
PY  - 2020///
KW  - PHILIPPINE
KW  - CHINA
KW  - PHILIPPINE STRATEGY
KW  - MILITARY IMBALANCE
N2  - In this article, we theorize that the Philippine government chose to pursue arbitration against China for three strategic reasons: 1) to counterbalance China's military actions in the South China Sea, 2) because of the strong benefits to the state resulting from using arbitration, and 3) the probability of winning the case using arbitration was perceived by the Philippines as strong. To test our hypotheses, we use interviews and process tracing, through which we find evidence for our suppositions, primarily the last hypothesis
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14799855.2018.1540468
ER  -