Horizons

The squad: Philippines and ‘Big 3’ allies

The Indo-Pacific region is fast emerging as the center of global geopolitical gravity. And the…

Fantastic 5: Europe, India, new allies

A lot has been going on in the Philippines these days. In fact, our country…

Barangay geopolitics: ‘Bobo ba tayo?’

Wisdom can often come from the unlikeliest corners. Over the past few years, Sen. Cynthia…

Marcos: A ‘Good Machiavelli’?

Niccolò Machiavelli, arguably the greatest (and most controversial) late-Renaissance thinker, counseled: “One must therefore be…

JAPHUS: A Japan-Philippine-US Alliance?

Nowadays, it’s a fad to brandish patriotic credentials via strong posturing on the West Philippine…

Should we ‘de-risk’ from Trump, too?

Perhaps no city better embodies the “End of History” zeitgeist than Berlin. From the Brandenburg…

À la carte diplomacy and its discontents

Berlin—”Why this hypocrisy? Why this selective and ambivalent attitude towards one race and another? Is…

Is Marcos too soft vs Dutertes?

When you strike at the king, you must kill him,” the great American essayist Ralph…

‘Great Wall of Democracy’

Over a century ago, Sir Halford John Mackinder, a renowned geographer, asserted that whoever controls…

A renaissance of Philippine cinema

Philippine cinema is back with a vengeance. A new generation of world-class directors is giving…