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Food Security: An Important Issue in the 2022 Election
National and local elections will be held on May 9, 2022. During this time, Filipinos will choose candidates at various levels to replace...
Nathaniel Punongbayan Candelaria
Feb 21, 20225 min read
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Why Renewable Energy in Southeast Asia?
Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash As the global population and economy grow, energy demand also increases. Southeast Asian countries...
Mary Ann Quirapas-Franco
Jan 28, 20226 min read
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Heeding the High Call for Health Security
Photo Source: Business Mirror As three seasons absurdly converge in the Philippines – emergencies and disaster, elections, the Holidays –...
Ronald Law
Jan 4, 20224 min read
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International Relations Perspectives on Southeast Asia’s COVID-19 Response
The COVID-19 pandemic characterizes the 21st-century world experience through its interweaving effects in various sectors. It displays...
Alexia Anne M. Suñaz
Nov 11, 20215 min read
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Securitizing COVID-19
Photo Source: SCMP How to deal with a non-traditional human security challenge such as the COVID-19 pandemic? The COVID-19 pandemic has...
Florence Gamboa, Deryk Baladjay & Julio Amador III
Nov 2, 20215 min read
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Should the Philippines welcome refugees?
Some Considerations
Dashell C. Yancha-Po
Aug 26, 20217 min read
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Business as usual for regional counter-terrorism strategies in Southeast Asia
Ground Zero or Main Battle Area in Marawi. (Photo Source: Wikimedia/PIA) Southeast Asian states continue to confront violent extremist...
Joseph Franco
Aug 16, 20214 min read
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Between Disaster Resilience & Energy Security – The Imperative for a PH Climate Change Discourse
Photo Source: CNN Philippines/Gab Mejia The Philippines is one of the countries that are most vulnerable to the effects of climate...
Ariel Hernandez
Aug 12, 20216 min read
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Security Risks and Challenges in BARMM
Photo Source: Inquirer The decommissioning of 40,000 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels and recorded estimation of 7,000...
Ann Febel Bajo
Aug 2, 20214 min read
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Sustainable Energy Transition of the Poor Rural Communities in the Philippines
Introduction In the global context, a developing country like the Philippines tries to address the lack of energy access and security by...
Mary Ann Quirapas-Franco
Jun 17, 20216 min read
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The Philippine Securitization of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Insecurity of Filipinos
The Securitization theory offers a way to present issues as an existential threat, thereby legitimizing the use of necessary measures to...
Laurette Nicole P. Ramos
Apr 15, 20214 min read
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The Philippines’ Food Security Situation in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Ways
Introduction In 1996, the World Food Summit defined food security as the condition “when all people, at all times, have physical and...
Nathaniel Punongbayan Candelaria
Apr 12, 20216 min read
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Self-Defense Against NonState Actors & Recent US Military Strike in Syria: Considerations for the PH
Photo Source: Ivan Omar Hassib Background On February 25, 2021, the US conducted a “targeted military strike” on a facility in Syria used...
Johaira C. Wahab
Mar 25, 202110 min read
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Revisiting the U.S.-China 5G Race: New Sheriff, Same Stakes
Photo Source: The Fast Mode The Biden Administration ushers a transition in United States’ foreign policies, most of which overturns...
Keith Cabaluna Detros
Mar 22, 20215 min read
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For Protection or Interests? Analyzing the Securitization of the Philippines on Marine Pollution
Securitization is the process of moving an issue into the security sphere to legitimize the use of extraordinary measures to address it....
Alicia Nicole Cruz
Mar 18, 20216 min read
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Thinking the Next Phase of the Pandemic
With the arrival of the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines to our shores after a long wait, moments of jubilation to celebrate this...
Ronald Law
Mar 6, 20214 min read
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Saving Lupah Sug: A Proposal to End Local Armed Conflict in Sulu
Photo Source: BBC On April 17, 2020, 11 soldiers were killed in a firefight between government forces and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). It...
Ann Febel Bajo
Mar 4, 20214 min read
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COVID-19 and Its Threat to Global Security
COVID-19 is not the first pandemic. Treating the international spread of infectious disease as a matter of high politics also not a new...
Noto Suoneto
Feb 15, 20215 min read
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Why Articulate A National Space Policy: The Indo-Pacific Context
Though the emerging security competition in the Indo-Pacific region gets a lot of attention, much of that is limited to the diplomatic...
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
Feb 8, 20213 min read
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Bangsamoro’s Potential for Regional Gains
Photo Source: Wikimedia The recently established Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) offers new hope for a peaceful...
Georgi Engelbrecht
Feb 8, 20215 min read
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