The Emergence of Filipino Technocrats as Cold War “Pawns”

Tadem, Teresa S. Encarnacion

doi:10.1080/00472336.2019.1694961

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“…As already noted, the military continues to dominate the country's politics. In the Philippines, as Teresa Tadem (2020) shows in this special issue, the training of Filipino technocrats was crucial for promoting and embedding policies of free market liberalism to defeat communism. Local training and education and graduate study in US colleges provided the state with reliable managers and provided the technocrats with the expertise to serve the state and corporations.…”

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Legacies of the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction

Hansson

Hewison

Glassman

2020

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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This article introduces the pieces collected in this special issue on the legacies of the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia. Linking to the Journal of Contemporary Asia's 50th Anniversary volume, it examines the origins and conflicts associated with the Cold War in Asia. In this special issue, the authors collectively examine the enduring legacies for the region of US engagements that established a set of politically authoritarian regimes trumpeting anticommunism while promoting American-style capitalism. While the path-dependence of this historical moment has not by itself bequeathed Asia's current crop of authoritarian governments, the authors argue that the current situation cannot be fully understood without reference to Cold War legacies. This introductory article contextualises the pieces in the special issue by providing a broad overview of the variety of Cold War political and economic legacies for the region. It concludes by noting the importance of the kinds of detailed, critical, theoretically informed and empirically rich research that Journal of Contemporary Asia has encouraged since its inception.

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Section: Cold War Political Legaciesmentioning

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Legacies of the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction

Hansson

Hewison

Glassman

2020

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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“…Philippine Geographyʼs subsequent focus on area studies and applied fields such as resource management, spatial planning, and urban and regional development may also be situated within attempts to magnify its significance amid this marginality. Disciplinal directions aligned with the potential contribution of geographic knowledge to post-Second World War statebuilding, which was then dominated by Cold War technocratic policies influenced by modernisation theory (Tadem, 2020). Together, these movements and exchanges would shape the trajectory of both teaching and research in Geography, which reflected a focus on particular mid-20th-century fields that remained in the curriculum and in geographic research until the turn of the 21st century.…”

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Geography’s trajectories in Philippine higher education

Saguin

Lopez

Cadag

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Trans Inst British Geog

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Contesting Social Welfare in Southeast Asia

Rosser

Murphy

2023

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This Element argues that Southeast Asia's failure to develop stronger social protection systems has been, at its root, a matter of politics and power. It has reflected the political dominance within the region of predatory and technocratic elements, and the relative weakness of progressive elements. From the mid-1980s, democratisation, the emergence of political entrepreneurs seeking to mobilise mass electoral support, and the occurrence of severe economic and social crises generated pressure on governments within the region to strengthen their social protection systems. But while such developments shifted policy in a more progressive direction, they have been insufficient to produce far-reaching change. Rather, they have produced a layering effect. Innovations have built upon pre-existing policy and institutional arrangements without fundamentally altering these arrangements, ensuring that social protection systems continue to have strong conservative, productivist and predatory attributes.

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The Emergence of Filipino Technocrats as Cold War “Pawns”

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Legacies of the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction

Legacies of the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction

Geography’s trajectories in Philippine higher education

Contesting Social Welfare in Southeast Asia

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