| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 戰略暨國際事務研究所 === 104 === We get to know the power structure in Southeast Asia from many scholars’ observations. Emmers has constructed a pattern of operation in this subregion, Vietnam, the most active in South China Sea dispute, is the pivot of interactions between internal and external powers. Therefore, the research includes the US and China, the two major powers, and Vietnam, to analyze the power interaction in Southeast Asia.
Triad theory is chosen to probe the interactions between these three countries simultaneously, and in chapter II, it is listed systematically. We recognize that the power constructed by the three nations has weaker restriction on their actions, and hence a more proper study structure is developed to connect the internal factor (strategies) with the external one (structure). In chapter III and IV, the internal and external conditions are built up respectively. Due to the characteristics in U.S. strategy and its worldwide projection, U.S. strategy can be set as an element in this research.
In chapter III, referring to the defense reports of the three nations and other researches, we present the strategy restrictions, the strategy vicissitude within two decades, and the appearance in Southeast Asia, all in the strategy map.
In chapter IV, the hierarchy and structure of power built by the military expenditure, along with the external structure, internal strategy appearance and three kinds of decision rules, are integrated into a trilateral-interaction model. The following is the observation of trilateral relationship from 1995 to 2016, including the element of the normal strategy and directed strategy of the U.S.
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