Congress An alternative take on President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘overwhelming’ midterm election victory July 12, 2019 0 Written by Ronald U. Mendoza and Leonardo M. Jaminola III. Image Credit: Rodrigo Duterte ภาพจาก by Prachatai/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. President Rodrigo R. Duterte recently completed his…
conflict Why Filipinos have come to embrace authoritarian ‘discipline’ July 3, 2019 1 Written by Wataru Kusaka. Image Credit: Rodrigo Duterte ภาพจาก by Prachatai/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. With no opposition candidates winning a single senatorial seat, President Rodrigo Duterte…
Belt and Road Initiative The balancing act ahead: Legislative options for the China-Philippines relationship after the midterm elections July 2, 2019 0 Written by Matthew Ordoñez. Image Credit: DSC08858 by mountain_MX/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The recently concluded 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines held on 13 May represent…
Civil society Reforming an ‘evil’ party-list system July 1, 2019 0 Written by Julio C. Teehankee. Image Credit: Election Posters by David Stanley/CC; Licence: CC BY 2.0. At the end of the hotly contested 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines,…
China Hong Kong: Neoliberal heaven or neoliberal nightmare? June 3, 2019 1 Written by Priscilla Roberts. Image Credit: Hong Kong 2 – Passerelle by D. Julien/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. Neoliberal economists, notably Milton Friedman and Friedrich A.…
Asia Excerpts from a voter’s notebook: Manifesto destiny May 7, 2019 0 Written by Swarna Rajagopalan In the first week of April 2019, the Congress Party released a manifesto it had spent months preparing in consultation with…
Cambodia Southeast Asia – drifting towards Digital Authoritarianism? March 15, 2019 0 Written by Jason Abbott. In the West, the principal concern of most digital activists relates to privacy issues surrounding the collection of data by governments…
Asia Small state security syndrome: understanding the Philippines’ National Security Strategy February 19, 2019 0 Written by Ananda Devi Domingo-Almase. My continuing research interest in the Philippines’ first ever publication of a National Security Strategy (NSS) in 2018 is driven…
Corruption Challenges to Modi October 8, 2018 0 Diego Maiorano With less than a year before the next general election, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is facing the first serious challenge to his…
