Third World Studies Center -- People: Academic Staff

PEOPLE: Academic Staff

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Director, Third World Studies Center, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman (2004-present)
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman (2000-present)
Chair, Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman (2000-2003)
Deputy Director for Research Monitoring and Evaluation, Center for Integrative and Development Studies, Office of the President, University of the Philippines (1997-2000)
Research Assistant, Third World Studies Center, College of Social Science and Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman (1982-1987)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong, China (1997)
Post-Graduate Certificate, Advanced International Programme on Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden (1990)
Ph.D. units, Department of Government, Cornell University, USA (1986)
Ph.D. units, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA (1986)
M.A. in Political Science, University of the Philippines-Diliman (1985)
B.A. in Foreign Service (magna cum laude), University of the Philippines-Diliman (1980)

RESEARCH INVOLVEMENT (SELECTED)

Project team member, “The Philippine Technocracy and Major Decision-making and Management of Philippine Affairs from the 1960s to the 1980s”, sponsored by the Japan Studies for the Promotion of Science (2007-present)
Project coordinator and co-researcher, "An Inquiry into the Negotiating Strategy of the Philippines in the World Trade Organization, 1995-2005”, funded by the Creative and Research Scholarship Program of the University of the Philippines System (2007-present)
Lead investigator, “Democratization, Development and the Basque and Moro Separatist Movements”, funded by the Spanish Program for Cultural Cooperation (2006–2008)
Philippine project coordinator, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Research Project on “Global Civil Society Movements: Dynamics in International Campaigns and National Implementation” (2004-2006)
Lead Investigator, “The Philippine Left and Problematizing Ethnicity and Religion in Peace Building”, Project on “Peace-building in Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Religious Southeast Asia”, sponsored by the Ford Foundation-Jakarta (2004-present)
Lead investigator, “Klong Dan Villagers Challenge the Asian Development Bank: The Case of the Samut Prakan Wastewater Management Project”, sponsored by a research fellowship from the Asia Fellows Program of the Ford Foundation (2002)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

With Eduardo C. Tadem. 2007. “Anti-Globalization Movements in Southeast Asia.” Asian Studies 39(1-2): 164-198.
2007. “Internationalizing the campaigns against the Asian Development Bank.” In Francois Polet, ed. The State of Resistance: Popular Struggles in the Global South. London: Zed Books.
2005. "The Philippine Technocracy and US-led Capitalism." In Takashi Shiraishi and Patricio N. Abinales, eds. After the Crisis: Hegemony, Technocracy and Governance in Southeast Asia . Kyoto and Melbourne: Kyoto University Press and TransPacific Press.
2003. "Thai Social Movements and the anti-ADB Campaigns." Journal of Contemporary Asia 33(3): 377-398.
With Eduardo C. Tadem. 2002. "L'Asie de Sud-Est." In Samir Amin and Francois Houtart, eds. Mondialisation des Resistances: L'etat des Luttes 2002. Paris: L'Harmattan.
2000. "Transforming the State into a Partner in Cooperative Development: An Evaluation of NGO-Government Partnership in the Philippines." In Stephen P. Osborne, ed. Public-Private Partnerships: Theory and Practice in International Perspective. London and New York: Routledge Press.
With Eduardo C. Tadem. 1993. "Ethnic and Separatist Movements in Southeast Asia." In Ponna Wignaraja, ed. New Social Movements in the South: Empowering the People. London and New York: Zed Books.

SELECTED AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS

Philippine Embassy in London Research Grant, “Global Social Movements Engagement of the Asian Development Bank” (2003-2004)
ASIA Fellows Award, Asian Scholarship Foundation (2000 and 2002)
Hong Kong Wong Clan Association Scholarship in Social Sciences (1994-1995)
Hong Kong University Postgraduate Studentship (1993-1997)
United Nations University Research Fellowship (1986)

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