The Myanmar Colonel was smiling as he asked me this publicly - it was an earnest question.Majority of the Myanmar Tatmadaw (military and police)...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019
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...
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...
