President of the Philippines

possible decisions. One example of Prisoner’s Dilemma is the hostage massacre incident in 2010 that greatly affected the international relation of the Philippine and Hong Kong government. The Manila Hostage Crisis was a massacre incident that took place on August 23, 2010. It occurred when Rolando Mendoza, a dismissed former national inspector in the Philippine National Police, hijacked a tourist bus in

will use my comparative skills to carefully analyze the Ukraine, and the Philippines under the following dimensions, which include political rights, civil liberties and the amount of freedom that exists within the respective countries’ borders. Both countries have many similarities and differences; yet, at the moment seem to have the same amount of freedom when looked through a wide scope or definition of democracy. The Philippines has been through turmoil since it became democratized, and recently elected

the Philippines. While the Spanish-American Treaty brought division within America, the Anti-imperialist argued against annexation of the Philippines and declared it unconstitutional and the Imperialist or expansionist was in favor of the treaty supporting America’s growth and power. Both imperialist and anti-imperialist did not want the Philippines to become a “non-white” state to enter the union. The Supreme Court made decisions also known as the “Insular Cases”, which gave the Philippines an

tenure in the Philippine Islands. Proclamation 2045 “terminated the state of martial law throughout the Philippines” (1). Its objective was stated as: [I]n pursuit of its long-range goal of recovering the substance of democracy, restoring individual rights and promoting the welfare of the Filipino people, the government has successfully waged a Democratic Revolution founded upon a series of reforms[.] (1) The day before the proclamation took effect, Ferdinand Marcos, former President and Prime Minister

individuals with their own hands. Rather they should inform the police officials to take over the mission that are appointed to them. The extrajudicial killings of the authority becomes murder. According to the article “Crackdown on drugs in the Philippines involves extrajudicial killings” by David Laconangelo, “About 800 of the deaths came at the hands of police during anti-drug operations, with the rest occurring under as yet unknown circumstances,”(15&16) This statistic report is from June 2016

Death squads have been a tool used by states in an attempt to control the population through fear. This idea is exemplified by the current situation in the Philippines, which has entered a state of constant fear due to the policy of President Rodrigo Duterte. However, this state of fear has been following Duterte well before his presidency, and can actually be traced all the way back to when he was the mayor of Davao, during which time he said, “Throw them in the ocean or the quarry. Make it clean

The major differences between democratic, authoritarian, and anarchic political systems are who holds the power, who has freedom/how much, and how much involvement the government has in the workings of its country. For authoritarian states, the power is held mainly by a single person or an elite group of people, few people have freedom, with what freedom they have being limited, and the government, or rather the leader/leaders, is involved in almost every aspect of the country from controlling the

many culture traditions from other countries. For example, Independence Day, the 4th of July. This celebrations goes back to the 18th century and the American Revolution. Only one other country that did celebrate this holiday, was the Philippines. The Philippines did celebrate this holiday but, only

colonies? As a result, the president, William McKinley, stressed that their imperialism was no different from anyone else’s, “It is just to use every legitimate means for enlargement of American trade; but we

people throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Expansionists and Jingoists like Theodore Roosevelt wanted to protect and gain control of other nations including Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Guam, whereas anti-imperialists such as William Jennings Bryan, Mark Twain, and