by Anh-Lise Gilbert | Oct 13, 2020 | Brown University
In the past twenty years, the world has been asking itself “will China democratize”? However, the Chinese Communist Party under President Xi has been doing so well that the debate had died down… until now. Coronavirus is bringing a new twist to speculations over...
by Kaan Akcay | Apr 28, 2020 | Bilkent University
The coronavirus outbreak raises some interesting questions for the social scientists and the general public. Most importantly, why are some countries more successful than the others? Differentiation between the success of the countries against the outbreak creates an...
by Diego Magallona | Dec 16, 2019 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
Activists in the Philippines are under siege. The country is now the most dangerous place for environmental activists, with 30 killed in 2018 – more than anywhere else in the world. And environmental defenders aren’t the only ones being targeted. Under Duterte’s...
by Diego Magallona | Dec 9, 2019 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
The Philippines opened the 30th Southeast Asian Games this year with a performance celebrating the country’s indigenous cultures. A day earlier, indigenous Aeta communities were given a notice evicting them from their ancestral lands. These Aeta families – up to 500...
by Edcel John Ibarra | Dec 2, 2019 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
A review of salient cases that have been considered by the Supreme Court suggests a judiciary largely unwilling to rule against the president. Three years in his term, President Rodrigo Duterte has already sworn in three chief justices of the Philippines’ Supreme...
