I had the opportunity to revisit Japan last November 16-19 for the 2018 Philippine Studies Conference in Japan (PSCJ) in Hiroshima University. While...
Research Archive
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...
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...
