Christmas homecoming (Part III)
FOLLOWING
Christmas Eve spent with my cousin Calope
Charina, we drove to Balilihan on
Christmas Day. Charina spends Christmas Day with the folks and I joined her....
Christmas homecoming
(Part II)
THE
CHRISTMAS trip began with a comfortable and relaxing car ride from General
Santos City to Davao airport for my flight to Bohol via...
Christmas homecoming
FOR “sentimental fools” like me, the most
exciting part about Christmas is visiting home. Home is naturally Bohol - my
birth place. It’s been a long...
ASEAN Issues
ASEAN is facing several issues at present but I would like to
highlight on 3 for this article: human rights; territorial disputes; and the
recent Indonesian...
Conflict intervention among Southeast Asian States
FROM THE year 1963-1966, Indonesian
President Sukarno declared Konfrontasi (Confrontation)
against the Federation of Malaya to oppose the formation of the Federation of
Malaysia consisting of Singapore,...
The concept of Non-Traditional Security
THE CONCEPT of Non-Traditional Security (NTS) in Southeast Asia
revolves around such crucial challenges and issues as climate change, resources
scarcity, infectious diseases, natural disasters, irregular...
The state of Southeast Asian regionalism
(A
collaborative essay by Danielle Renee M. Nacpil, Ijy James Lomibao, and this
columnist.)
INITIALLY built upon the notion of
withstanding the communist expansion in Southeast Asia, the...
ASEAN Community-building
SECURITY, political, and economic factors
facilitate the building of a strong Southeast Asian community.
Scholar Vincent Pollard said, “The turbulent
political development of ASA happened from...
Revisiting Philippine history
WE ARE NOW tackling historical, colonial, and nationalist
experiences of Southeast Asia and naturally one has to revisit history through
the eyes of scholars.
I learned...
The ASEAN Political-Security Community Blueprint 2025 (2nd of 2 parts)
I WOULD like to correct myself by saying that the Blueprint braces
(instead of lays) the foundation for
international relations particularly ASEAN’s strong relations with its...