Richard Heydarian: The Rise of Duterte and Geopolitics of the Philippines
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🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Analyst Richard Heydarian explains President Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to power and the geopolitics and foreign policy of the Philippines as it struggles to find its way between a military alliance with the United States and its economic integration with China and the New Silk Road, all in the shadow of the ongoing South China Sea crisis.
Show Notes
How fear and paranoia about China’s rise breathed new life into the ‘Quad’ – at Asean’s expense http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2135860/how-fear-and-paranoia-about-chinas-rise-breathed-new
China nearly done militarizing South China Sea http://www.atimes.com/article/china-nearly-done-militarizing-south-china-sea
Duterte to China: ‘If You Want, Just Make Us a Province’ http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/duterte-china-%E2%80%98if-you-want-just-make-us-province%E2%80%99-24599
Rodrigo Duterte Is Key to China’s ‘Post-American’ Vision for Asia http://nationalinterest.org/feature/rodrigo-duterte-key-chinas-post-american-vision-asia-20825
Richard Heydarian: Duterte’s Rise in Perspective https://thediplomat.com/2017/11/richard-heydarian-dutertes-rise-in-perspective
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About Richard Heydarian
Richard Javad Heydarian is an Assistant Professor in international affairs and political science at De La Salle University, and previously served as a policy advisor at the Philippine House of Representatives. As a specialist on Asian geopolitics and economic affairs, he has written for or interviewed by Al Jazeera, Asia Times, BBC, Bloomberg, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, The Diplomat, The Financial Times, and USA TODAY, among other leading international publications. He is the author of How Capitalism Failed the Arab World: The Economic Roots and Precarious Future of the Middle East Uprisings (Zed, London), and the forthcoming book Asia’s New Battlefield: US, China, and the Struggle for Western Pacific (Zed, 2015). You can follow him on Twitter: @Richeydarian.
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| 0:00.0 | We are speaking with Richard Haydarian, who is an academic, author, policy analyst, and advisor. |
| 0:14.9 | He's the author of numerous books, but the one we'll be talking about today is The Rise of Duterte, |
| 0:19.9 | a populist revolt against elite |
| 0:21.5 | democracy. I have it right here in the Kindle version. Thank you for joining us, Professor Haydarian. |
| 0:28.8 | My pleasure. Now, I only recently discovered your work, and I truly am impressed with the breadth |
| 0:34.8 | of your knowledge and output. The book doesn't come cheap, it's 40 bucks, but I really do recommend it. |
| 0:41.0 | It gave me really a crash course on Philippines and President Duterte. |
| 0:45.8 | I believe it's one of the first to examine the presidency of Duterte. |
| 0:49.4 | And in order to properly understand what's going on in the Philippines today, you lay out the global trend and |
| 0:55.6 | context of this rise of populism, which we're witnessing everywhere from Mexico in the example |
| 1:02.1 | of Lopez Obrador, Britain, Italy, Hungary, Philippines. This failure of Western liberal |
| 1:09.0 | democracy in some parts of the world has resulted in what you call a hybrid form of government combining both democracy and autocracy. |
| 1:16.6 | Could you tell us about the work you did first in tracing this trend and how that laid the foundation for the rise of the tech day? |
| 1:23.6 | Well, I mean, first of all, this is just going to be a beginning of a series of works I'm looking at. |
| 1:31.2 | Hopefully, the next book I'm looking at is a comparative analysis of, you know, populism in multiple countries, including Turkey, in the case of Ardovan, of course, Narendramodi, in case of India. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm looking at Jokowi, but most likely I'm also going to look at Prabowo, the, of Ardawan, of course, Narendramodi, in case of India. |
| 1:44.4 | I'm looking at Jochowi, but most likely I'm also going to look at Prabo, the populist |
| 1:48.9 | right-wing former general and someone who has been accused of massive human rights violations |
| 1:54.4 | who almost defeated President Joaqu in the last elections and who will most likely run again |
| 1:58.8 | next in 2019. |
| 2:01.2 | So the fact of the matter is that it seems there is a trend here. |
| 2:05.0 | And in my work, actually, I'm trying to distinguish between what I call emerging market |
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