The Discourse of the Republic of Singapore Foreign Policy Strategy in the Field of Ensuring Regional Security in the Second Half of the 2010s

Abstract

Against the backdrop of growing competition between the United States and China in East Asia, there is a tendency to reduce the role of the United States in Southeast Asia. The role of the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China in relation to the national interests of the Republic of Singapore is being lost from the foreign policy discourse of the second half of the 2010s. This case is caused by the growing uncertainty of the republic in the ability to control the processes that at this stage have become factors in the system of international relations. ASEAN becomes the “cornerstone” of the foreign policy process in the field of security of the Republic of Singapore. The Republic of Singapore seeks to balance the foreign policy process in the context of competition between the United States and China in the Southeast Asia region. The Republic of Singapore can no longer correlate its foreign policy strategy exclusively with one global actor, which in turn forms a multi-vector foreign policy strategy based on the potential and actorhood of ASEAN. Understanding the above tendency and vital national interests of the Republic of Singapore seems even more important in expanding the international agenda on the part of the Russian Federation in the context of bilateral and interregional cooperation, especially in view of the creation of a free trade zone between the EAEU and the Republic of Singapore.