Publications - Philippines Institute

The policy brief addresses the role of civil society organisations in regulating mandatory community development programs in the Philippine mining sector.

This policy brief explores the challenge to human rights under the Duterte administration, with a focus on engagement with international institutions, specifically the UNHRC and the ICC.

Recognising the increasingly urban character of Southeast Asian politics, our introduction to this special issue explores the varied patterns of government–business relations found across the region.

This article argues that fragile control over courts in the Philippines and Indonesia provides opportunities to resist encroachment by the executive and allows them to reassert their independence.

This article investigates determinants of the Philippine Supreme Court’s behavior since the country’s return to democracy in 1987, with particular attention to “loyalty effects”.

This chapter argues that the executive-legislative relationship in Indonesia and the Philippines has changed in recent years.