Rodrigo Duterte

In order to ensure success, military officials must conduct thorough analysis on a country and its culture to maximize their efforts and increase their chances of success. Culture can be defined as “the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations” ("Culture | Definition of Culture by Merriam-Webster," 2016.) The components that create a culture are: symbols; language; norms; values;…

The twenty-first century has been a time of great advancement for humanity, but also a time of great decline of American influence, as a whole, across the globe. With the world’s once greatest superpower now showing weakness, lying vulnerable, the time is ripe for a rising star to make a grab at achieving the hegemonic status that has lain in the stable hands of the Americans for so long, to pull the rug out from under their feet. As history has shown the transition of a new power into and…

survive, and reproduce. Other countries will still exploit Dharavi. Dharavi is filled with skilled workers that are poor, desperate for work, and can provide cheap labor. They only have each other to look out for their best interest. Even then, it is still survival of the fittest. Background assumption is a deeply embedded, common understanding of how the world operates and of how people ought to act. Dharavi is a mega slum. Before I watched this video I did not understand fully the concept of a…

It is difficult to find a modern day ruler who would be viewed as good leader by everyone. For example, the President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, who is viewed negatively by many western world leaders, was shown to of had an 87% approval rating at the end of his first 3 months in office (Charlotte England, The Guardian). There are very few past presidents who can be looked back upon as…

I. Southeast Asian countries, due to their historical and social complexity, continue to deviate from widely held political theories. In this paper, I will employ the work of Alexis De Tocqueville and Robert Putnam to show how the Philippines and Thailand prove to be enigmatic in that regard. I argue that we see a largely active civil society but low democratization in Thailand and the Philippines owing to their authoritarian histories and lack of democratic institutionalization. I chose to…