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Listen: “From Vulnerability to Strength: Analyzing Foreign Interference in the Philippines” | A Podcast Episode

The fifth episode of the fourth season of the Katipunan Dialogue Podcast featured a discussion with Capt. Xylee Paculba PN (Ret). It explored the concept of foreign interference, factors that make the Philippines vulnerable to it, and ways to develop our country’s resilience towards the preservation of democracy, independence, peace and order, and of our overall national interest.

You can listen to this episode on Spotify.

Episode Topics

The conversation centered on the following questions:

      1. What is foreign interference?
      2. How is the Philippines vulnerable to foreign interference? What are the factors (or signs) that there is a presence of foreign interference in the country?
      3. What are the implications of foreign interference to our democracy and autonomy as a country?
      4. In 2025, we will have our midterm elections, how can foreign interference be an electoral concern?
      5. How do we build our resilience as a country to prevent malign foreign interference? How do we preserve our national interest from foreign actors?

Guest Speaker

Capt. Xylee C. Paculba PN (Ret) is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman. She is also an independent consultant to national and international organizations working in the areas of international and maritime security, maritime domain awareness, and, gender and development. She is a retired Navy Captain with more than two decades of military service in the Armed Forces of the Philippines. She is a member of the Philippine Military Academy “Maliyab” Class of 2004 (from UP Diliman Department of Political Science website).

Host

Mr. Aaron Abel Mallari is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP), University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD). He holds a BA and MA in History from the University of the Philippines. He obtained a double degree from the European Masters in Global Studies (EMGS) Program through an Erasmus+ scholarship that enabled him to study at the Ghent University in Belgium and the University of Vienna in Austria. Presently, his research pursuits focus on the broad history and development of international drug policy, transnational crime, and Southeast Asian studies, with an inclination toward applying and thinking about postcolonial and decolonial theorizing and methodology (from UP Diliman Political Science website).

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The Katipunan Dialogue Podcast (KDP) is produced by the Strategic Studies Program (SSP) of the Center for Integrative and Development Studies, University of the Philippines, in partnership with DZUP. You can listen to the previous episodes of KDP on Spotify.

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