What Does Marcos 2.0 Mean for ASEAN?
Julio S. Amador III
Julio Amador III explains how the new Marcos Jr. Administration can play a more proactive role in the regional bloc.

Julio S. Amador III
Julio Amador III explains how the new Marcos Jr. Administration can play a more proactive role in the regional bloc.
Chong Ja Ian
Chong Ja Ian calls attention to the need for new ASEAN leaders to adapt to a changing global order.
Jason Vincent A. Cabañes|Fernando A. Santiago, Jr.
Digital disinformation has been menacingly deployed to distort historical narratives about the Philippines’ Martial Law period in the 1970s and early 1980s. This tactic, bolstered by social media technologies, has masterfully resonated with the yearning for a “strong leader” who is independent of the country’s elites and able to discipline the nation’s masses.
Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano
The Philippines faces significant labour protection challenges amid a growing gig economy. It needs to outgrow consumer-focused regulations and address business risks being pushed down to at-risk workers.
Hong-Kong Nguyen|Pham-Muoi Nguyen|Viet-Ha Nguyen
2022 proved to be another eventful year for the South China Sea as disputant states continued to take a variety of actions to assert their advantages.
Aaron Jed Rabena
In the event of hostilities in the Taiwan Strait, Manila’s defense treaty with the United States will give it little room to manoeuvre.
Ma. Diosa Labiste
The 2022 presidential election in the Philippines saw fact-checkers fighting an uphill battle against widespread efforts to misinform and disinform Filipino voters, but some key lessons were learned.
Jacqueline F. Espenilla
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has served the Philippines well in achieving its security, economic and environmental goals. The most high-profile application of UNCLOS was the country’s arbitration proceedings against China in 2013 over the South China Sea.
Jason Vincent A. Cabañes|Fernando A. Santiago, Jr.
The Philippines is currently at the global cutting edge of fake news and political trolling online. Unfortunately, the country has yet to find firm footing in stemming disinformation’s unruly growth.
Aaron Jed Rabena
While it is too early for his foreign policy platform to fully emerge, the Philippines' new president will have his hands full in calibrating Manila’s relationships with Washington and Beijing. It is not a foregone conclusion that he will lean strongly in either direction.