Mark Anthony M. Velasco
De La Salle University-Manila, Philippines
mark_anthony_velasco@dlsu.edu.ph
Date Received: July 10, 2015; Date Revised: November 16, 2015
Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
Vol. 3 No. 4, 82-89
November 2015 Part V
P-ISSN 2350-7756
E-ISSN 2350-8442
The Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) in the Philippines Insights on Issues of Sovereignty, Security and Foreign Policy 604 KB 1 downloads
Mark Anthony M. Velasco De La Salle University-Manila, Philippines mark_anthony_velasco@dlsu.edu.ph Date...
The study intends to compare the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the Philippines and the United States of America and the VFA between the Philippines and Australia. The research piece is arranged in the following flow of ideas. The first and the second part provides the foundations by highlighting issues on definition, historical background, provisions of the agreement and concerns faced by the agreement of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America and the Status of the Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA) between the Republic of the Philippines and Australia. The third part is an analysis of the VFA and the SOVFA under the tutelage of the framework on the non-intervention principle. As a result, the provisions of SOVFA were in consonance with the legal arrangement in the Philippines than the VFA with the United States of America.
Keywords-Visiting Forces Agreement, Principle of Non-Intervention; Principle of Sovereignty; National Security; Foreign Policy