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

 

Book Chapters

 2004.From Rio To Johannesburg: Comparing Sustainable Development in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and The Kyrgyz Republic.” In The Tracks of Tamerlane: Central Asia’s Path to the 21st Century, edited by Col. D. Burghart and Dr. T. Sabonis-Helf. Washington DC: Center for Technology and National Security Policy, US National Defense University. (Co-authored with Alma Raissova)

 2020. “The Case of Agrarian Reforms in the Philippine-USA Relations: A Biopolitical Perspective.” In International Studies in the Philippines: Mapping New Frontiers in Theory and Practice, edited by Frances Antoinette Cruz and Nassef Manabilang Adiong . Singapore: Routledge.  

 

Book Reviews 

2016.  "Review of Enduring Rivalries in the Asia-Pacific by Steve Chan." Asian Studies 52 (1): 151-4. 

2013. “Review of Central Asia and the Rise of Normative Powers: Contextualizing the Security Governance of the European Union, China, and India by Emilian Kavalski.” Asian Politics and Policy 5 (3): 475-78. 

2014. “Review of High-level Political Appointments in the Philippines: Patronage, Emotion and Democracy by Rupert Hodder.” Philippine Political Science Journal 35 (1): 121-4.