Application of Entropy、TOPSIS and Grey Relational Analysis Method to Analysis Relationship of Economic and Military Capability Evaluation of Regional Economic Integration Membership：A Case Study of RCEP and CPTPP

• Main Authors: CHOU, YI-FU, 周翊莆
• Other Authors: FANG, TZU-YI
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r249s9

碩士 === 國防大學政治作戰學院 === 政治研究所 === 106 === The purpose of this study is to examine the rankings of the economic and military capabilities of the regional economic integrators of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), and the weights of their respective indicators.Taiwan is in a strategic position in the Asia-Pacific region; RCEP members are our major export markets and investment regions. In 2016, 16 RCEP countries accounted for 58.6% of Taiwan's total trade volume, and Taiwan’s accumulated investment in RCEP members accounted for 80% of Taiwan’s foreign investment.CPTPP's member states’ GDPs reach as high as US$10.2 trillion, accounting for 13.6% of global GDP and Taiwan’s trade volume accounted for 25.25% of Taiwan’s total foreign trade.Therefore, it is crucial for Taiwan to participate in regional economic integration, which is also an important part of Taiwan’s political diplomacy and economic and trade strategy.From this perspective, both RCEP and CPTPP are important topics for Taiwan.This study takes RCEP and CPTPP member countries as the research objects, and uses Entropy, TOPSIS and grey relational analysis to analyzes the indicators of economic and military capabilities of each country from 2013 to 2017 The results show that the ranking of countries’ economic and military capabilities is stable. In terms of economic indicators, GDP, FDI, labor force, foreign exchange deposits, and total imports are all important indicators in RCEP and CPTPP countries.In terms of military capabilities, strategic missiles, defense budgets, air defense missiles, railway chiefs, and fighter aircraft are all important indicators in RCEP and CPTPP countries, the relevance between China's economic capacity and economic and military comprehensive capabilities to both RCEP and CPTPP is continuously improving; the relevance of China's military capabilities to RCEP is increasing and the relevance to CPTPP is declining.The results of this study can provide reference for government resource allocation in the planning of economic policies and preparations for military operations in the future, and to increase the efficiency of the policy and fill in gaps in the related quantitative literature.