Duterte and the Multipolar Strategy That Shakes Washington
By Federico Pieraccini
On May 30, 2016 Manila’s parliament appointed Rodrigo Roa Duterte as the sixteenth president of the Philippines following his election victory over...
Guerilla Incursions from the Boondocks: “Anti-Americanism” in the Philippines. President Duterte’s Subaltern Counter-Hegemony
By E. San Juan Jr.
“A howling wilderness” was what General Jacob Smith ordered his troops to make of Samar, Philippines. He was taking revenge...
The Shift of the Philippine Peso Regime
By Dan Steinbock
In the Aquino era, the focus was on financial flows, which rested on a strong peso. In the Duterte era, it is...
Obama-Duterte Blow Up: What the Corporate Media Doesn’t Get
By Wayne Madsen
The western corporate media generalised the Duterte-Obama feud as one between a statesmanlike US president and a Filipino Donald Trump. For Obama...
Duterte’s Pragmatic Agenda for the Philippines
By Dan Steinbock
While the Aquino reforms ignited great progress in the Philippines, the new president will favor inclusive growth and greater pragmatism in foreign...
Philippines 2016: Navigating Between the US and China
By Dan Steinbock
In the past six years, Washington and Manila have been cementing a military alliance, which is reassuring to many Filipinos but leaves...
Ease of Doing Business Act – the key to the Philippines’ economic comeback?
The Philippines has been vying for the ease of doing business act to be signed, and when it was on May 28, economists and...
Trump’s Asia Tour: From Old Conflicts to New Prospects
By Dan Steinbock
Trump’s gruelling 12-day...
The South China Sea and Philippine National Interest and Security
By Roland Simbulan
The ideal strategic goal is for the Philippines to enjoy the friendship of the US, Japan and China and not be a...
The Uhuru blueprint: What if PH had stayed in ICC?
By Dan Steinbock
Recently, the Philippines withdrew from the ICC opting for the path of US and Russia, China and India. To focus on a...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
Why Are Wars Legal? By International Law, Waging War Itself is a War Crime. Why do we think it is not?
By Joseph Mazur
The Geneva Convention permits states to defend themselves under the right to use force in expectancy of an armed attack by another state. That right could then validate invading under a covert...
