
Strategic Studies Program (SSP)
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Strategic Studies ProgramZoom Recording for Katipunan Dialogue Podcast Episode 4: “Realignment of Forces in the Indo-Pacific,” with Dr. Rajeswari Rajagopalan and Gen. Emmanuel T. Bautista AFP (ret.).
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Source/Credit: Strategic Studies ProgramZoom Recording for Katipunan Dialogue Podcast Episode 3: Regional Crisis Management: Multilateralism, with Dr. Sarah Teo, and RAdm. Rommel Ong AFP (ret.), moderated by Dr. Jean Encinas Franco
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Source/Credit: Strategic Studies ProgramZoom Recording for Strategic Philippine Foreign Relations: Challenges and Prospects for 2022 and Beyond webinar, with UP Diliman Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo, Professor Tina Clemente, Professor Antoinette Raquiza, Professor Herman Joseph Kraft, Dr. Maria Thaemar Tana, Amb. Laura Quiambao-Del Rosario, and Gen. Emmanuel T. Bautista AFP (ret.).
The Strategic Studies Program (SSP) aims to promote interest, discourse, and significant changes in the Philippines foreign policy and capacity building for strategic studies. The UP CIDS SSP traces its antecedents from the UP CIDS China/Strategic Studies Program of 2015–2016.
In 2015, the team members laid the groundwork for initiatives directed at capability building in strategic studies in the University. The program views the Philippines’ latest engagements with the great powers and other states in the Asia Pacific region as a catalyst to further collaborative and multi-disciplinary research between the intellectual communities within East Asia.
Strategic studies is an interdisciplinary academic field centered on the study of conflict and peace strategies, often devoting special attention to the relationship between international politics, geo-strategy, international diplomacy, international economics, and military power. For developed countries and large powers, strategic studies is often seen as centered on the use of military power for defense and security purposes. For developing countries such as the Philippines, which cannot draw much leverage from military resources and therefore need to rely more on diplomacy and political stratagem, strategic studies may focus on Philippine foreign and security policy, the management of international conflict, and how the country can develop the means to match its long-term goals.
From 2017 onwards, SSP will seek to undertake activities that will contribute to the attainment of two long-term objectives: (1) the institutionalization of training and education on strategic studies, ranging from short courses (certificate program) to a Master’s Degree; and (2) the establishment of a think tank/research institute.
Publications
Structural Change and Power Balancing in the Indo-Pacific: An Australian View of the Region's Alliance Politics | Discussion Paper 2019-04 721 KB 16 downloads
UP CIDS Discussion Paper 2019-04 ...Stopping Asia's 'Crisis Slide': An Australian Perspective on Asia's Flashpoint | Discussion Paper 2019-03 724 KB 9 downloads
UP CIDS Discussion Paper 2019-03 ...What's in it for us? A discussion of the various options the Philippines might take to benefit from Taiwan's New Southbound Policy | Policy Brief 2019-02 516 KB 21 downloads
UP CIDS Policy Brief 2019-02 ...Securitizing energy: Prospects and challenges for the Philippines | Policy Brief 2019-01 473 KB 33 downloads
UP CIDS Policy Brief 2019-01 ...Steering the Economy amidst Global Uncertainties and New Developments | Discussion Paper 18-006 3 MB 11 downloads
UP CIDS Discussion Paper Series 18-006 ...Projects and Activities
This project seeks to produce a directory and database of Filipino and Philippine-based experts whose work contributes, or may potentially contribute, to strengthening the foundations of strategic studies in the country.
View the list of episodes at Spotify.
View the Term Reports from 2018 to 2022 for a list of SSP programs and activities, which include meetings, webinars, and/or publications (forthcoming or already published).
News
The Team
Herman Joseph S. Kraft, MA
Department of Political Science
College of Social Sciences and Philosophy
University of the Philippines Diliman
Maria Thaemar C. Tana, PhD
Co-Convenor
Department of Political Science
College of Social Sciences and Philosophy
University of the Philippines Diliman
Maria Therese Anna C. Robles, PhD
Research Fellow
Edcel John A. Ibarra
Research Fellow
Ronna Shane Belaro
Senior Project Assistant