| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 國際政治研究所 === 102 === Studies of the mainstream of international relations tend to ignore the value of small countries and interactive relationship between big countryies and small countries. But the rising of regional great power who is pursuiting the leadership in the region, often deliberately draw or oppression small countries integrating into its sub-system.
Sri Lanka is located in the middle of Indian Ocean Region(IOR） which is close to India for dozens kilometers.If some competiting regional great power control Sri Lanka will cause severe influence in national security to India. Sri Lanka got the autonomy from the British in 1948,it tended to maintain good relationship with India with supporting Non-Aligned Policy,mediating the boder dispute of China and India in 1962.South Asian tsunami damaged Sri Lanka''s ecnomy and took many lifies in 2004,China''s aid recovery Sri Lanka''s economy with rising great economic power,even solved the 26-year civil war between SL Army and LTTE with selling offensive weapons.The situition of China''s affect getting strong in IOR deepen the suspicion of India.This study main discussion is what foreign policy Sri Lanka will take between the competition of China and India in IOR.
On discussion of a small country''s foreign policy, scholars develop "alliances or non-aligned" or "balancing or bandwagoning", as well as "engagement and hedging" strategies. I hypothesized that a small country (Sri Lanka) in the absence of foreign aid for its powerful neighbor circumstances, plus fruit strength disparity, usually only take bandwagoning strategy confronting its powerful neighbor (China and India). Small countries take an alliance and non-aligned, or balancing and bandwagoning policies contend primarily by "external structure" (ie, the level of competition level). When in high level competition of structures tend to engage alliance and tend to take non-aligned in low level competition. This studies indicate that in the non-aligned policy, a small country against its powerful neighbor to draw foreign aid for balancing, and subject to what the strategic interests of small countries in political, economic or military can provide, if small countries lose the incentive for foreign aid, bandwagoning strategy will become main forgign policy to powerful neighbor.
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