Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Call for Papers: Is the Philippines Ready for a Post-American World?

Details

1st Asian Politics & Policy Conference
Is the Philippines Ready for a Post-American World?
25 July 2015, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., GT-Toyota Asian Cultural Center
Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman

(The ‘post-American world’) is not about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.
– Fareed Zakaria, author, “The Post-American World”

Asian Politics & Policy, the U.P. Asian Center, the Policy Studies Organization, and the U.P. Center for Integrative & Development Studies, will be hosting the 1st Asian Politics & Policy Conference, “Is the Philippines Ready for a Post-American World?” on Saturday, 25 July 2015, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m, at the GT-Toyota Asian Cultural Center, Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman.

The 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. Abstracts are due 24 April 2015.*

The conference welcomes presentations and papers on the following suggested themes:

  • 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 by Westphalia Press. Authors are advised to look at these submission guidelines.

All submissions and inquiries should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

CALENDAR (2015)

  • 15 April: Submission of abstracts (250–300 words), 5 keywords, and author’s 200- word resumé 
  • 4 May: Announcement of accepted abstracts
  • 15 June: Submission of draft papers (6,000–10,000 words)
  • 25 July: Conference
  • 10 August: Workshop (for successful papers/authors only)

Download a PDF of this call for papers.

* The original deadline was 15 April 2015.