12 July 2019 marked the third year anniversary of Philippine’s victory on its arbitration case against China on the South China Sea. Three years...
Research Archive
Tuesday, July 09, 2019
Politics is swayed by the tempo and spirit of the times. Administrations in power, no matter how visionary, would always be compelled to...
Wednesday, July 03, 2019
Transitional justice has been one of the buzzwords in the peace agreement between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic...
Thursday, June 27, 2019
There is no shortage of anticipation in the lead-up to a scheduled fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA). The one this coming July 22 should be...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
“Yung mga boboto sa mga taong ‘to, paki-unfriend ako please. Wala akong kaibigang bobo.” (Those who will vote for the following candidates,...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
The opposition lost. Not one of the Liberal Party (LP)-dominated “Otso Diretso” senatorial contenders made it to the twelve Senate seats up for grabs...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019
Political decision-making is usually the usual territory of those in power. What electoral democracy affords us is a window of opportunity to...
Thursday, May 30, 2019
The United States’ government ban of Google trade in software and hardware components with Huawei and other firms as part of the US-China trade wars...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
The Myanmar Colonel was smiling as he asked me this publicly - it was an earnest question.Majority of the Myanmar Tatmadaw (military and police)...
Wednesday, May 08, 2019
Come 13 May 2019, 61,843,750 or 57.4% of the total 107,795,964 Philippine people will select among other political positions twelve new senators...
Monday, April 22, 2019
A few years ago, a 16 year-old boy was killed in an armed encounter. UNICEF called to task both the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) and the military for...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Mining is highly extractive. From the vantage point of environmental protection, “responsible mining” may seem like an oxymoron given the...
Tuesday, April 02, 2019
Three years after his election on May 9, 2016, the Philippine midterm elections this year will serve as a litmus test of President Rodrigo Duterte’s...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
March, the women’s month…and this is a last ‘hurrah.’
Women and women’s collectives are not homogenous
Women have...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
To many people, ‘election debates’, is a means to inform voters of how the issues of the day are framed and discussed by candidates. The exchange...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Foreign policy is often an eclipsed subject of electoral campaigns. By its nature, it is reserved to the remit of the agents of the...
Tuesday, March 05, 2019
In most democratic societies, mid-term elections are seen not only as a referendum on the performance of a sitting government / political party....
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
On 18 January 2019, three days before the January 21, 2019 plebiscite for the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), President Rodrigo R Duterte alluded to...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Around four years ago, friend would ask me questions as we go our way back home to Quezon City from our five-day immersion stay with a fisher-folk...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
I had the opportunity to revisit Japan last November 16-19 for the 2018 Philippine Studies Conference in Japan (PSCJ) in Hiroshima University. While...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
It is more than five years now since China’s President Xi Jinping introduced the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kazakhstan in September 2013 and...
Tuesday, October 09, 2018
“All politics is local,” so the saying goes. This may give the impression that only the distribution of local goods and services matter to the...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Is there a way for us to radically reframe we think about how human beings relate to our environment that allows us to properly respond to the...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
After Senator Leila de Lima, Senator Trillanes now seems next in line for Malacañang’s retaliatory moves against prominent critics....
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
In a survey conducted by Pulse Asia last June, two out of three Filipinos do not agree that the 1987 Constitution should be revised at this time,...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Dr. Ma. Louise Antonette N. De Las Peñas, Associate Dean for Research and Creative Work, received the 2018 National Academy of Science and Technology...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Two years into the Duterte Administration, trepidations on the fate of the peace process continues. The proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL...
Thursday, July 05, 2018
The Philippines under the Duterte Administration should construct a narrative in order to make sense of its position in the West Philippine Sea (...
Wednesday, May 02, 2018
The viewpoint that binds federalism, development, and democratization is heavily linked to neo-liberal economics where, in broad terms, the...
Thursday, April 12, 2018
There will always be some kind of ‘bragging rights’ for those that come as ‘the first’ --- the first to do this, the first to do that. We are...
