The viewpoint that binds federalism, development, and democratization is heavily linked to neo-liberal economics where, in broad terms, the...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2018
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...
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Day 1
“Thank you for being here today.”
These were the words with which Dr. Jesus Principe, main convenor of the event, welcomed...
Monday, February 26, 2018
It seems the Philippines has reached another juncture in its slow march towards political development, with the most recent debate on Charter...
Saturday, February 17, 2018
In most democracies these days, discussions on electoral politics are surprisinglylimited to general elections. Most media analysts and election ‘...
Tuesday, January 09, 2018
The Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) effort to reform, post 1986, was largely fueled by fear of political adventurism of the...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held its 31 st ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in the Philippines last 12-14 November 2017. What...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Last October 17, President Rodrigo Duterte declared Marawi City liberated from terrorist influence. This statement marked the beginning of the...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
The four-month old Marawi crisis has revealed that the internal security threat in the Philippines has changed. It has mutated into the...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
I am often asked by my students on why protests matter, given that (based on what they’ve observed), these very rarely work at all. I wish to...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
In 2004, the United Nations Secretary General’s Report on the Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
This year marks the 120th anniversary of the publication of ‘Recessional’—an enigmatic poem written by the great English novelist and poet, Rudyard...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017
The Maute-Abu Sayyaf (ASG)- led terrorism that besieges Marawi city, in the province of Lanao del Sur in Mindanao is connected to the...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
The spectre of martial law (ML) crept back on the Philippines when Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. (better known as BBM and son of the former dictator...
Thursday, July 20, 2017
This article is written by Dr. Fabian Dayrit, current president of the Integrated Chemists of the Philippines and the chairman of the Asian and...
Friday, July 14, 2017
Boying* has a blank expression on his face, oblivious to his surroundings. He has been asking for his mama for days, but no mama comes to him...
Thursday, July 06, 2017
China’s “Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)” or “One Belt, One Road (OBOR)” seems to be gaining ground especially after China held the Belt and Road...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
By Dr. Fabian M. Dayrit
Professor, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee for Health, Asian and...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
By Dr. Fabian M. Dayrit
Professor, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee for Health, Asian and...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Ten years ago, a 2007 study surveyed all member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)—the Philippines included—regarding...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Federalism is being proposed as the alternative to the prevailing overly-centralized power structure of the government. Especially for the Visayas...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
The University in the current context must deal with a number of issues that may have a different set of manifestations per generation. In the...
Thursday, April 06, 2017
An interesting video posted by TV Patrol has made the rounds of the Internet recently, and it features an estuary in Purok de Oro, Barangay...
Wednesday, April 05, 2017
Federalism has gained unprecedented traction as soon as President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office middle of last year. As a result, policy makers,...
Wednesday, April 05, 2017
The worst fears regarding the election of Donald J. Trump as American president were embodied in his January 20 inauguration speech when he mentioned...
Thursday, March 30, 2017
A recent achievement of the country has not been given the consideration it deserves. This pertains to the increase in average real wages, which...
Monday, March 20, 2017
This few would question: the state of Metro Manila is now a national catastrophe. Only the annual costs of carmaggedon (P1,095, based on National...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
On Tuesday, March 7, 216 members of the House of Representatives voted to pass the HB 4727, or the Death Penalty law which seeks to impose the death...
Monday, March 13, 2017
Technological anxiety has been with us since the first modern industries appeared. The angst toward new technologies is mainly about the fear of...
Monday, March 13, 2017
On February 9 the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) hosted a seminar, entitled “Global Uncertainty: Regional Headwinds and the...
