THE KISSING PRESIDENT IS NO KIDDING PRESIDENT
I am no woman. But, I take women's issues personally and seriously. This is how I was trained and molded by my mentors in the past 23...
Privileging Lumad Claims in the Bangsamoro Polemics: Imperatives for a Pluralist State Arbitration
Abstract Oftentimes, scholars look at the issue of the Bangsamoro autonomy as a single-sided coin minoritization, where Muslim...
“From Resource Curse to Resource Cure: Transforming Neoliberal Mineral Regimes in Southeast Asia to
Abstract This is a three-country comparative inquiry into the resource-rich states in Southeast Asia, namely: Indonesia and its...
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...
Arguing for Human Rights in Myanmar and the Philippines: Asian Values, Populism and the Politics of
Introduction In the early part of 2018, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte advised Myanmar’s Chief Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi not to...
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...
