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Main Patterns of Philippine Foreign Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

H. B. Jacobini
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Philippine foreign policy is important to the United States for several reasons. The epigram describing the Filipinos as the most occidental of the Orientals and the most oriental of the Occidentals, emphasizes the Philippines as potentially one of the world's most important cultural bridges between these two worlds. It combines some of the best features of both areas and offers the possibility of giving each world an insight into the other. From the American standpoint the Philippines is often thought of as a show window in the Orient, and this country has a stake not only in the success of Philippine democracy, but also the Philippines provides some testimony to the fairness of American colonial policy.

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The Review of Politics , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , October 1961 , pp. 507 - 530
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1961

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