This monograph investigates the politics of selected social forces in the post-independence Philippines since 1946. It answers three research questions: 1. Is the Philippines a weak state? 2. Why is it? 3. How exceptional is it? To answer the first and second question, an analysis of the politics of the Huk Rebellion and the Communist insurgencies is provided. As two contending social forces, their interactions with the Philippine state help to identify the ever-contesting nature of Philippine state-society relations. An analysis of the relationships between the Philippine Chinese...
This monograph investigates the politics of selected social forces in the post-independence Philippines since 1946. It answers three researc...
Stretched out along the Western rim of the Pacific, historically torn between Chinese and US influence, the Philippines has been troubled by internal conflicts since its independence in 1946. After decades of communist insurgency, social unrest, and the 14-year dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, the democracy that followed in 1986 has been beleaguered by mutiny, corruption, and violence. In Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia, an historically aware ethnography of the region and the first study of its kind, Pak Nung Wong maps out the complex interweaving power structures of the tribal...
Stretched out along the Western rim of the Pacific, historically torn between Chinese and US influence, the Philippines has been troubled by internal ...
Qualifying post-Westphalian sovereign statehood as a power as argued for in Hendrik Berkhoff s political theology, this book addresses the decades-long theological-spiritual debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism in U.S. foreign policy and global Christian circles. It approaches the debate by delving into the pacifist Anabaptist political theology and delineates empirically how sovereign statehood in post-colonial Africa and Asia has fallen into the hands of the devil Satan, as a fallen power in the Foucaultian terms of power structures, techniques and episteme. While the...
Qualifying post-Westphalian sovereign statehood as a power as argued for in Hendrik Berkhoff s political theology, this book addresses the decades-...
