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Volume 014, Issue 16
Op-Ed
Weekly Standard
Max Boot and Richard Bennet look at the success of "low-intensity" U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in the Philippines.
See more in Counterterrorism, U.S. Strategy and Politics
Updated: June 1, 2009
Backgrounder
A profile of terrorism in the Philippines.
See more in Southeast Asia, Terrorism, Havens for Terrorism
Updated: May 14, 2007
Daily Analysis
Violence, corruption charges, and prominent personalities color voting in Filipino elections. The results could determine the staying power of President Arroyo.
See more in Elections
Updated: May 27, 2009
Backgrounder
A profile of the terrorist organization based in the southern Philippines.
See more in Southeast Asia, Terrorism, Havens for Terrorism, Terrorist Organizations
August 15, 2006
Must Read
In this report Amnesty International documents an increased number of killings of political activists in the Philippines, predominately those associated with leftist or left-orientated groups. The attacks, mostly carried out by unidentified men who shoot the victims before escaping on motorcycles, have very rarely led to the arrest, prosecution and punishment of those responsible. Amnesty International believes that the killings constitute a pattern and that a continuing failure to deliver justice to the victims represents a failure by the Government of the Philippines to fulfil its obligation to protect the right to life of every individual in its jurisdiction.
See more in Global Governance
February 27, 2006
Daily Analysis
A state of emergency and arrests of senior military officers is testing The Philippines' fragile democracy, which marked a somber and tense 20th anniversary over the weekend.
See more in Democracy and Human Rights
2006
Must Read
This study from the East-West Center analyzes the ongoing conflicts in southern Thailand and southern Philippines between indigenous Muslim minorities and their respective central governments.
See more in Thailand, Conflict Assessment
December 7, 2005
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
See more in Cuba, Foreign Policy History
July/August 2002
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
See more in National Security and Defense
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
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