Strategic initiatives from the private sector

Atty. Katrina Clemente-Lua, Executive Director of the Stratbase ADR Institute The recent Shangri-La Dialogue which is an annual intergovernmental defense forum hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies was attended by 50 country delegates and ministers on the premise of building foundations for deeper security collaboration among the region’s policy makers. Indeed, collaboration is… Read More

Philippine Education: Points for further reform

Louie C. Montemar, Education Fellow of the Stratbase ADR Institute and Professor of Sociology and Political Science Under a so-called “trifocalization” approach, the Department of Education (DepEd), the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd), and, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) comprise the government’s education bureaucracy. DepEd and CHEd are particularly responsible for at… Read More

Keynote Address of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore

Keynote Address of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore 01 June 2018 Prime Minister ली सियन लूंग, Thank you for your friendship, your leadership of India-Singapore partnership and a better future for the region. Defence Ministers, Mr. जॉन चिपमैन, Dignitaries and Excellencies, Namaskar and a very good evening to all of… Read More

ADRi Occasional Paper: “Varieties of Capital: The Direction, Patterns, and Implications of Chinese Foreign Investments in the Philippines”

Alvin A. Camba is a Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He uses mixed-methods approaches to derive the determinants of [Chinese] foreign direct investment, the dynamics of elite competition, and the political-economic effects of capital mobility on the developing world. He has been awarded the Terence K. Hopkins Best Graduate Student Paper Award… Read More