Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash As the global population and economy grow, energy demand also increases. Southeast Asia alone would...

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...

Some Considerations

Ground Zero or Main Battle Area in Marawi. (Photo Source: Wikimedia/PIA) Southeast Asian states continue to confront violent extremist...

Photo Source: CNN Philippines/Gab Mejia The Philippines is one of the countries that are most vulnerable to the effects of climate...

Photo Source: Inquirer The decommissioning of 40,000 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels and recorded estimation of 7,000...

Introduction In the global context, a developing country like the Philippines tries to address the lack of energy access and security by...

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: Ivan Omar Hassib Background On February 25, 2021, the US conducted a “targeted military strike” on a facility in Syria used...

Photo Source: The Fast Mode The Biden Administration ushers a transition in United States’ foreign policies, most of which overturns...

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

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

Photo Source: BBC On April 17, 2020, 11 soldiers were killed in a firefight between government forces and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). It...

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: Wikimedia The recently established Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) offers new hope for a peaceful...

Though the emerging security competition in the Indo-Pacific region gets a lot of attention, much of that is limited to the diplomatic...

Satellite imagery from Google Earth Violent non-state actors (VNSAs) such as terrorist and insurgent groups are increasingly turning to...

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...

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...

A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this...