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President Duterte: How and Why? > Articles
He has insulted the Pope, the UN Secretary General and former US President Barack Obama; engineered the arrest of his leading legislative opponent and the removal of the country’s top judge; declared martial law in the country’s second-largest island; boasted of using extrajudicial force as Human Rights Watch estimates more than 10,000 people have died in his war on drugs. And yet, polls say, Rodrigo Duterte is the most popular president in Philippine history. Why?
Easy answers came fast on the heels of his May 2016 election, most putting him down for a fool or a tool. Two new books take a closer look at both Rodrigo Duterte the man and the initial phase of his presidency. In A Duterte Reader, sociologist Nicole Curato gathered 19 Filipino scholars, journalists and activists to reflect on the Duterte administration’s first year, while in The Rise of Duterte, Manila-based political scientist and prolific commentator Richard Javad Heydarian collects some of his most thoughtful recent analysis. In both, the authors situate Duterte in history, compare him to other Philippine politicians, analyze his speeches and draw on polling data. They look behind his crude vulgarities and unpredictable policies to as
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In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama
Eric Tagliacozzo
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
In Asian Waters is Eric Tagliacozzo’s third volume of a trilogy that begins with the illicit trade in Southeast Asia, then “expands” to a second volume on Southeast Asians making the pilgrimage to Mecca. In this remarkable sweep of the last five hundred years (and an occasional sortie into the older years), Tagliacozzo asks us to stretch our imagination further and look back at a realm far more extensive and perhaps even richer than Fernand Braudel’s Mediterranean zone. With considerable deference, he builds on the writings of historians specializing in specific regions. He also brings in the twenty-year research that took him all over these worlds to produce a far larger narrative of ocean-wide maritime routes that connected places like Hormuz and Aden to Madagascar and Bombay, Hoi-an, Singapore, Zamboanga, Shanghai, Okinawa, and Nagasaki (there is even a mention of northern Australia) as far back as two thousand years ago.
But this breadth is not the book’s only appeal. In Asian Waters is also a methodological delight. By citing Dutch (instead of French) sources, Tagliacozzo shows how, far from being an insignifican