National Security, Anti-Corruption, and Anti-Crime Policies in the Duterte Administrationdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3888122PhilippinesNational SecurityCorruptionCrimeDutertePresident Duterte's top three campaign promises, to be completed within the first seven months of his term, on ending crime, corruption and ...
politics over the past few years, this probably sounds disturbingly familiar—and indeed seems to fit into a now-recognizable pattern, also manifested in the Philippines’ 2016 election of populist, zero-tolerance Duterte. It’s precisely that similarity that should, and I hope will, give these ...
Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, also continue to worsen significantly.”Id.,J.J. Messner, “Issues of Fragility Touch the World’s Richest and Most Developed Countries in 2018,” at 9. Messner also sounds a cautionary note in terms of adopting illiberal policies and eroding democratic instit...
Duterte has stated that he would like to bring back the death penalty for the crime of plunder, and while he back-pedaled on his support for extrajudicial killings in the last presidential debate, Duterte still admits to having killed in the past, with a new ominous and unclear caveat: “...
but President Erdogan or Turkey and President Duterte of the Philippines—naturally call into question the Administration’s seriousness about aggressive GMA enforcement. Consider further the fact that, despite the overwhelming evidence coming out of Chechnya that its president Ramzan Kadyrov hasauthorized ...
elections—both backward-looking evaluation of the impact of the Trump Presidency on corruption in the US and beyond, and forward-looking considerations about the anticorruption agenda under the incoming Biden Administration. Today’s post isn’t about Trump per se, but it’s loosely inspired by ...