A Comparative Case Study of the U.S.-Philippines Alliance in the 1990s and the U.S.-South Korea Alliance between 1998 and 2008

Abstract

This article compares the discontinuation of the U.S.-Philippines alliance between 1992 and 1999 with the continuation of the U.S.-South Korea alliance between 1998 and 2008. Whether either country reconciled with the U.S. to accommodate the latter's core military strategy was a primary determining factor of the different outcomes.