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Photo Source: Business Mirror As three seasons absurdly converge in the Philippines – emergencies and disaster, elections, the Holidays –...

The COVID-19 pandemic characterizes the 21st-century world experience through its interweaving effects in various sectors. It displays...

Photo Source: SCMP How to deal with a non-traditional human security challenge such as the COVID-19 pandemic? The COVID-19 pandemic has...

Photo Source: Wikipedia As COVID-19 virus spreads and turns into a global pandemic, nations raced to create a vaccine to mitigate its...

The whole world has been dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic for more than a year, but not all regions and countries have been hit the...

The Securitization theory offers a way to present issues as an existential threat, thereby legitimizing the use of necessary measures to...

Introduction In 1996, the World Food Summit defined food security as the condition “when all people, at all times, have physical and...

Photo Source: Wikipedia January 3 marked the first death anniversary of General Qassem Soleimani and Popular Mobilisation Committee (PMC)...

Securitization is the process of moving an issue into the security sphere to legitimize the use of extraordinary measures to address it....

Photo by Lara Far on Unsplash The Filipino women’s perpetual quest for independence and security reflects the various socio-political and...

With the arrival of the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines to our shores after a long wait, moments of jubilation to celebrate this...

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic. Treating the international spread of infectious disease as a matter of high politics also not a new...

Photo Source: The Scoop Brunei’s fifth chairing of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) since joining the regional...

The Covid-19 pandemic is the most pervasive issue in our midst today. The spread of pandemics has long been on the watchlist of security...

Photo Source: Wikimedia COVID-19 is not necessarily a geopolitical event but its transborder and transnational scope inevitably affected...

After decades’ worth of government service, nothing should surprise me anymore. 2020 is proof that even a veteran such as I will have...

Two most relevant events are likely to shape the geopolitical landscape in East Asia starting 2021 onwards with truly far-reaching...

The year 2020 demonstrates a departure from routine contexts in disaster management. The Philippines is considered as one of the most...

Introduction The 2016 World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) emphasized that humanitarian action should be as local as possible, as...

Almost a year after the then-novel coronavirus epidemic broke out in Wuhan, China to become the COVID-19 pandemic of today, we are still...