Mary Ann Quirapas-Franco 3 hours ago 6 min 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...
Laurette Nicole P. Ramos Apr 14 4 min 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...
Nathaniel Punongbayan Candelaria Apr 11 6 min 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...
Johaira C. Wahab Mar 25 10 min 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...
Keith Cabaluna Detros Mar 22 5 min 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...
Alicia Nicole Cruz Mar 18 6 min 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....
Ronald Law Mar 5 4 min 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...
Ann Febel Bajo Mar 4 4 min 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...
Noto Suoneto Feb 14 5 min 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...
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan Feb 7 3 min 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...
