by Shania Darla Soriano | Apr 28, 2021 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
With only one more year to go, Duterte and his tyranny will finally end. This leaves the country’s democracy in a precarious position in the next 2022 elections. Will the country vote to regain democracy? Or will the country vote for Duterte version 2.0? On May 9,...
by Joshua Emmanuel Ramos | Apr 28, 2021 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
Beginning the 1970s, the Philippines has endured Constitutional violations committed by no less than the government. To go around the 1935 Constitution’s ban on a third consecutive term, President Marcos campaigned for a constitutional convention to revise the same....
by Alejandro Barrera | Apr 6, 2021 | Georgia State University
Vietnam is a country with an authoritarian and non-democratic regime, led solely by the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). Yet, unlike other authoritarian models of governments often spearheaded by one centralized figure such as Xi Jinping in China, Vietnam’s model of...
by Steven Duke | Mar 23, 2021 | American University
The military coup in Myanmar on February 1st signifies a reversal of liberalization that had slowly been developing in the country since the end of the military dictatorship in 2010. However, the coup was made extremely easy due to the immense institutional power that...
by Amna Rana | Mar 18, 2021 | American University
The Myanmar military took power quietly overnight; yet this coup did not surprise many people. Myanmar has struggled with democracy for many decades under both military and civilian rule. In fact, under civilian rule, in 2017, Myanmar’s military committed...
