This 1st Asian Politics and Policy Conference will bring together academics, government analysts, and public intellectuals to consider how a radically transformed external environment – particularly with the locus of economic power shifting to Asia – is creating new policy challenges for the Philippines’ political economy, foreign policy, security, and national as well as regional identity.

Presentations and papers on the following suggested themes are welcome:

• Philippine economic strategies for the new Asian century
• The future of the Philippines-US alliance
• Living with China, but loving it?
• ASEAN Regionalism: its promises and its discontents
• Alternative constructions of “region”
• The Philippines’ new security partnerships
• What is an independent foreign policy in a global era?
• Military modernization: imperatives and perils
• Winning the peace: from Mindanao to the South China Sea
• Filipino diaspora: the next 40 years?
• Being and becoming Filipino: ethnicity, identity and cyberspace
• The Philippine archipelago: is our maritime geography a curse or blessing?

Selected papers will be reviewed and may be published in a special issue of Asian Politics & Policy and/or as an edited volume byWestphalia Press.Authors are advised to look at guidelines posted at this link. All submissions and inquiries should be sent to [email protected].

This conference is a collaboration among Asian Politics & Policy, the Policy Studies Organization, the University of the Philippines’ Asian Center, and U.P. Center for Integrative & Development Studies.