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CESHK 2013: Does The Philippines Really Need K-12?
One of the keynote speakers for CESHK 2013 was the Dean of Teacher Education at Cebu Normal University, Filomena Dayagbil, who spoke about quality issues in Philippine education. Internal and external...
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Immigration Policy and the Philippine Diaspora
I’ve spent the past seven years living in foreign countries, almost all of that time with my wife (who I met at very early in this journey) who hails from the Philippines. One thing that made us a...
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Assessing the Risk of War in the South China Sea (2014 Edition)
Pag-Asa Island I wrote more than a year ago that there was little reason to worry that the Scarborough Shoal incident would turn into a war, as many feared, because the structural dynamics were such...
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A Note on the Philippines-US Basing Agreement
The United States and the Philippines just signed the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), for which The Philippines government has provided a FAQ that is worth a look. This agreement not...
View ArticleRed Dawn at Malacañang?: Duterte, China, and the South China Sea
To see the South China Sea tensions from where I sit, an emerging regional power is flexing its muscles by making increasingly bold gestures over dubious territorial claims. Those muscles were mainly...
View ArticleDuterte’s Long Game in Four Scenarios
Sometimes you make predictions that you hope were wrong. One such prediction was my Red Dawn at Malacañang essay, written just after Duterte won the presidency in the 2016 election. What I saw at that...
View ArticleWill Duterte Open a Third Front?
Of the many similarities between Donald Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is the question of when one should take him at his word. Prone to bluster, he was serious about implementing...
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The Geopolitical Lessons of 1991 and the Revisionist Turn
My political consciousness of a wider world around me – a world larger than Deep South and America – coincided with the 1991 Gulf War. On one side of that war is memory fog so dense I can only...
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