Distinguished University Professor Renato Cruz De Castro
De La Salle University Manila
Professor, Political Science
Philippines
My Publications
This explains the durability of the Philippine-U.S. alliance.
Defence Studies
May 2022
Caught Between Appeasement and Limited Hard Balancing: The Philippines’ Changing Relati...
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
February 2022
Challenging China’s Maritime Expansion in the South China Sea from the Aquino to the Du...
East Asian Policy
July 2021
The article discusses the impact of the U.S.-China strategic competition on ASEAN.
Asian Journal of Comparative Politics
May 2021
The article examines the prospect of down-grading the RP-US alliance to a security part...
The Pacific Review
November 2020
This article explains how Philippine foreign policy is changing from appeasement to sof...
Asian Affairs An American Review
September 2020
This article examines the limits of the ASEAN's intergovernmental approach.
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
July 2020
Three Scenarios for Asia's Changing Regional Order
Asia Policy
January 2020
The article links the Duterte Administration's appeasement policy with China's BRI .
East Asia
August 2019
It is about the several insurgent groups challenging the government.
April 2019
The article examines the role of fear in the Duterte Administration's foreign policy.
Asian Affairs An American Review
October 2018
The Obama Administration's Strategic Rebalancing to Asia: Quo Vadis in 2017?
Pacific Focus
August 2018
It is an overview of Philippine-China relations.
February 2018
The article discusses the recent developments in Philippine-U.S. alliance.
Philippine Political Science Journal
December 2017
Developing a Credible Defense Posture for the Philippines: From the Aquino to the Duter...
Asian Politics & Policy
October 2017
The article examines Philippine-Japan security partnership/
Asian Affairs An American Review
April 2017
The Duterte Administration's Foreign Policy: Unravelling the Aquino Administration's Ba...
December 2016
Facing Up to China’s Realpolitik Approach in the South China Sea Dispute: The Case of t...
Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs
July 2016
This article examines how a small power adjust to systemic changes in East Asia.
Asian Security
May 2016
Philippine foreign policy from 2001 to 2016
Asian Politics & Policy
April 2016
The Strategic Balance in East Asia and the Small Powers: The Case of the Philippines in...
Pacific Focus
April 2016
The article discusses the Philippines use of lawfare against China after 2012 .
Asian Perspective
January 2015
Philippine Strategic Culture: Continuity in the Face of Changing Regional Dynamics
Contemporary Security Policy
May 2014
Linking Spokes Together: The Philippines' Gambit of Harnessing the United States' Allia...
Pacific Focus
April 2014
The Aquino Administration's Balancing Policy against an Emergent China: Its Domestic an...
Pacific Affairs
March 2014
China and Japan in maritime Southeast Asia: extending their geo-strategic rivalry by co...
Philippine Political Science Journal
December 2013
The Philippines in 2012
Asian Survey
February 2013
The Risk of Applying Realpolitik in Resolving the South China Sea Dispute: Implications...
Pacific Focus
August 2012
The Philippines in 2011
Asian Survey
February 2012
Weakness and Gambits in Philippine Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century
Pacific Affairs
December 2010
Engaging both the Eagle and the Dragon: The Philippines' Precarious and Futile Attempt ...
Pacific Focus
November 2010
The twenty-first century Armed Forces of the Philippines: orphan of counter-insurgency ...
Contemporary Politics
May 2010
Abstract of Counter-Insurgency in the Philippines and the Global War on Terror. Examini...
European Journal of East Asian Studies
January 2010
Confronting militant Islam in Southeast Asia: the case of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the P...
Korean Journal of Defense Analysis
September 2009
Exploring a 21st-Century Japan-Philippine Security Relationship: Linking Two Spokes Tog...
Asian Survey
July 2009
The US-Philippine Alliance: An Evolving Hedge Against an Emerging China Challenge
Contemporary Southeast Asia
January 2009
Exploring Southeast Asia’s twenty-first century defence economies
November 2008
The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and the Revival of Populism/Neo-Populism in 21st Centur...
Asian Survey
December 2007
21st Century Chinese Arms Modernization and Statecraft in Southeast Asia
Korean Journal of Defense Analysis
June 2007
Twenty-First Century Philippine–American Security Relations: Managing an Alliance in th...
Asian Security
August 2006
Exploring the Prospect of China's Peaceful Emergence in East Asia
Asian Affairs An American Review
May 2006
Politics in Command: The Case of the US Proposal for an FTA with the Philippines
Contemporary Southeast Asia
December 2005
Philippine Defense Policy in the 21st Century: Autonomous Defense or Back to the Alliance?
Pacific Affairs
October 2005
Regionalism and Multilateralism: Essays on Cooperative Security in the Asia‑ Pacific
Contemporary Southeast Asia
August 2005
U.S. War on Terror in East Asia: The Perils of Preemptive Defense in Waging a War of th...
Asian Affairs An American Review
January 2005
Congressional Intervention in Philippine Post-Cold War Defense Policy, 1991–2003
Philippine Political Science Journal
December 2004
Addressing International Terrorism in Southeast Asia: A Matter of Strategic or Function...
Contemporary Southeast Asia
August 2004
THE REVITALIZED PHILIPPINE-U.S. SECURITY RELATIONS: A Ghost from the Cold War or an All...
Asian Survey
November 2003
Probing into the Legality of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) Claim to Sovereignt...
Philippine Political Science Journal
December 2000
Whither Geoeconomics? Bureaucratic Inertia in U.S. Post-Cold War Foreign Policy toward ...
Asian Affairs An American Review
January 2000
Interactive Naval Developments of Three Northeast Asian States
Contemporary Southeast Asia
December 1995
Interactive Naval Developments of Three Northeast Asian States
Contemporary Southeast Asia
December 1995
The Triad of Twenty-first Century Counter-Terrorism
