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JoeAmAlliances Under Strain: Building a Philippines That Can Keep Functioning When the World Is Disrupted
By Karl M. Garcia The Philippines is entering a strategic environment in which crises can no longer be treated as separate events. A confrontation in the Taiwan Strait can affect shipping, insurance, semiconductor supplies, migration and regional trade. A prolonged conflict in the Middle East can affect oil prices, shipping routes and inflation. A crisis … Continue reading
THE PHILIPPINES AS A MARITIME NATION
How the blue economy, maritime security, resilient transportation, shipbuilding and Filipino talent can become one national capability By Karl M. Garcia The Philippines is a maritime country. It is an archipelago of islands surrounded by water, with a vast maritime domain, busy sea lanes, major fisheries, extensive coastlines, hundreds of ports and generations of Filipinos … Continue reading
More Than Styles: How Filipino and Imported Martial Arts Built a Nation of Warriors
By Karl Garcia Ask a Filipino martial artist how they began, and the answer will likely be different depending on the generation. Some first picked up a rattan stick in an Arnis class. Others tied on a karate belt. Many learned Taekwondo in school. Some eventually discovered Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, boxing, or mixed martial … Continue reading
THE GEOPOLITICAL SOUNDTRACK
Music, Power, Coercive Diplomacy and the Filipino Soundtrack of a Multipolar World By Karl M. Garcia Introduction: Every Geopolitical Era Has a Soundtrack Every geopolitical era produces more than treaties, military doctrines, alliances and diplomatic communiqués. It produces a soundtrack. The Cold War had one: the sound of nuclear anxiety, ideological confrontation, Vietnam, civil rights, … Continue reading
PHILIPPINE TOURISM
From Visitor Arrivals to a National Tourism Ecosystem By Karl M. Garcia Introduction: Tourism Is Becoming Economic Infrastructure There is perhaps no sector more misunderstood in national development than tourism. Too often, tourism is reduced to beaches, resorts, airports, hotel rooms, festivals and advertising campaigns. But the Philippines is increasingly demonstrating that tourism is much … Continue reading
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