Contesting the Philippines: A Forum and Book Launch

The UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP CIDS) is organizing a forum and book launch, “Contesting the Philippines,” on 7 August 2024, 9 am – 12 noon, UP CIDS, Lower Ground Floor, Ang Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman, QC. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is first-come, first-served. Participants are encouraged to pre-register.

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Forum Presentations

• The ARMM Is Gone: Long Live the BARMM

Steven A. Rood, PhD
Fellow-in-Residence and Board Member, Social Weather Stations

• Local Civil-Military Relations during Emergency: Lessons and Norming from Marawi

Rosalie Arcala Hall, PhD
Executive Director, UP CIDS

• The Philippine Service Export Economy and Prospects of Manufacturing

Antoinette R. Raquiza, PhD
Convenor, Political Economy Program, UP CIDS

• Impeachment under Duterte: Liberal Tool or Illiberal Weapon?

Atty. Cristina Regina Bonoan
Senior Lecturer, College of Law, UP Diliman

• Patterns of Violent Conflict in Maguindanao since the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro

Georgji Engelbrecht
Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group

• Politics, Personalities, and Institutions in the Philippine Supreme Court

Atty. Maria Lulu Reyes
Professor, School of Law, Saint Louis University

• Political and Economic Update: DU30 at 2

Ronald U. Mendoza, Ph.D.
Former Dean, School of Government, Ateneo de Manila University

Discussants

• Maria Ela L. Atienza, PhD
  Professor, Department of Political Science
  University of the Philippines Diliman

• Jan Carlo Punongbayan, PhD
  Assistant Professor, School of Economics
  University of the Philippines Diliman

ABOUT THE FORUM and BOOK

As the Marcos Jr. administration enters its third year, the six years of the Duterte presidency merits a much closer double-take. The book, Contesting the Philippines, maps a period of “contesting the Philippines” during the Duterte administration (2016–22), a period of an intense, normative and practical struggle to shape of the Philippines’ most critical institutions, emerging actors the spectrum of Filipino politics. View full list of chapter titles and contributing authors.

The book can help scholars and policymakers today spot continuities and ruptures across the two administrations, identify the directions the Philippines may be moving, and craft appropriate interventions. Co-edited by Steven Rood and Veronica Taylor, Contesting the Philippines is published by ISEAS Publishing in Singapore.

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