Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century
Subtitle: Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Trajectories (Politics in Asia)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 8, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415147910
First sentence: In the mid-1980s, at the height of the Reagan era and the last decade of the Cold War, the Philippines became the focus of considerable international media attention, and news stories tended if not to romanticise the archipelago then at least to imbue it with special geo-political significance.