July 27, 2016 Dindo Manhit, President of Stratbase-Albert del Rosario Institute for Strategic and International Studies Image Source: philstar.com On Monday, President Rodrigo Duterte delivered a conversational yet comprehensive State of the National Address, or SONA. In it, President Duterte summed up his first priorities in legislation, in national projects, and in delivering public services,… Read More

Hon. Antonio Carpio is a Senior Associate Justice in the Supreme Court of the Philippines. In the past, he has served as a Professional Lecturer in the UP College of Law,  Special Representative of the Department of Trade for textile negotiations, and the President of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines.

July 25, 2016 A Ibrahim Almuttaqi, Head of ASEAN Studies Program, The Habibie Center, Jakarta and Contributing Writer for the Stratbase-Albert del Rosario Institute On July 12th, 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague gave its ruling on the case of the Philippines v. China concerning the dispute over maritime jurisdiction in… Read More

July 25, 2016 Charmaine Misalucha-Willoughby, Associate Professor at the International Studies, De La Salle University and Contributing Writer for the Stratbase-Albert del Rosario Institute We live in strange times. The international system we operate in is not the easiest of environments out there, largely due to anarchy. Anarchy structures the relations of the members of the… Read More

July 25,2016 Richard Javad Heydarian, author of “Asia’s New Battlefield: US, China and the Struggle for Western Pacific” (Zed, London), a regular contributor to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and contributing Writer to the Stratbase-Albert del Rosario Institute For four decades, the Association of Southeast Asian… Read More

July 22, 2016 David Lai, Ph.D, Research Professor of Asian Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and Contributing Writer to the Stratbase-Albert del Rosario Institute Professor Frederick J. Gellert, Professor of Resource Management, Department of Command, Leadership, and Management (DCLM), School of Strategic Landpower (SSL), U.S. Army War College In the two… Read More

By Andrew Shearer Woody Island in the Paracel Island chain. Google Earth MANILA, Philippines – The international community owes the Philippines a debt of gratitude for bringing the arbitration proceeding and seeing it through, despite the difficulties – which one suspects are by no means over. The arbitral award is important in its own right: the… Read More