Populist Leaders in Democratic Regimes: Why Drug War in Southeast Asia is Supported
Indonesia, Philippines and the Kingdom of Thailand offer an interesting contrast of democratic consolidation (or decline) in Southeast...
Examining States and State-Society Relations from the Feminist and Environmentalist Optics
Precis When communism crumbled with the disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and when the Cold War ended...
1MDB versus 38 Oxley Road: Differentiating the Anti-corruption Culture of Malaysia and Singapore
While emerging from almost the same historical past and sharing very analogous geographical and cultural backdrops, Malaysia and...
Legitimizing Authoritarianism in Singapore and Malaysia
Two of the remaining electoral authoritarian regimes in Southeast Asia, Singapore and Malaysia offer stark contrasts in their aptitudes...
Singapore’s Benevolent Autocracy and Philippine’s Malevolent Democracy
Calls for a “benevolent dictatorship” in the Philippines, following Singapore’s reform model from being Southeast Asia’s backwater to...
"Chinafication" and Democratization in Greater Mekong: Challenges to Good Governance
Precis Southeast Asia is still far from the ideal political integration it envisioned upon the founding of ASEAN in 1967. This is partly...
Democratizing Autocracy in Cambodia
A visit to the killing fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia some time in 2013 evoked a harrowing feeling as the guide walked us down memory...
Chinese Expansionism in Laos
Landlocked amidst regional powers, Laos suffers to be one of the poorest countries in Asia with most of its people still relying on...
VIETNAM’S SMART POWER PROJECTION
Vietnam has proven in the course of history its military might, no matter how small. Yet, it is able to maintain thriving diplomatic and...
Pushing for a constitutional court in federal PH
The Constitution, being the supreme law of the land and the embodiment of the people’s will, must be treated with utmost respect and...
