Pak Nung Wong
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2430470 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Pak Nung Wong |
| NOMBRES | Pak Nung |
| APELLIDO | Wong |
| FIRMA | WONG P N |
| AFILIACIONES | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0657-2715 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Assimilative integration
For decades from the Cold War (1950s–1980s) to the present time, a strand of scholarships concerning the ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia has been persistently informed by the ‘assimilation vs. integration’ debate. At odds with this dualism, this article finds that in contemporary Philippine state-building reality, assimilation and integration of the ethnic Chinese could well co-exist, thus constitute a more nuanced and grounded, if not novel, an…
Toward a futurist approach to hedging strategy in Southeast Asia
Amid China's rise and intensifying China–U.S. competition in the Indo–Pacific region, it is widely consented among international scholars that a key strategy in Southeast Asia's statecraft and geopolitics is the adoption of “hedging” against great powers, to maximize economic gains and mitigate security risks. For more than two decades, academic, strategic, and policy studies of Southeast Asia's hedging strategies have contributed a wealth of div…
Logic of the Powers
What global future would ensure hope, justice and peace to the human mankind? In view of a fast evolving post-Covid world order, this volume explores a novel Christian post-colonial approach to global affairs. It examines the existing 'sociology of the powers' theoretical scheme, the debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism, the method and practice of prophetic witnessing, to elaborate a new Christian approach to statecraft and fut…
Techno-Geopolitics
Logic of the Powers
The Islamic State’s Global-Localization Strategy in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines
Despite the United States and its allies recently declaring the utter defeat of the terrorist organization Islamic State’s (IS) strongholds in Iraq and Syria, the 2019 Easter suicide bombings in Sri Lanka highlights IS’s successful transformation into a globally networked organization. This paper examines IS’s global-localization strategy by identifying the common patterns in its terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines. Thro…
Destined Statecraft
Strategic Cultures as ‘the Powers’
Destined Statecraft
The Small Powers in World Politics
This paper aims to conceptualize a framework for better understanding the challenges, actions and rationales of the African and Asian small powers in the post-1989 global order. The paper will be divided into three parts. First, it will review the literature on small power/state studies. Second, following a critique of the major approaches in small power studies, we will argue for the need for a critical realist perspective to better capture the …
U.S.-China Containment and Counter-Containment in Southeast Asia
In 2011, the United States of America ( u.s. ) adopted the “pivot to Asia” (also known as “return to Asia”) foreign policy. In order to provide a critique of this apparent policy change, this paper has two aims. First, we will contextualize such policy agenda against the Anglo-American strategic culture of “containment” as a strand of geopolitical realism and a foreign policy practice against communism. Second, by providing a case study on the ch…
Containing and Dissolving Ontological Violence
In view of the intensifying efforts of Asian universities to compete for global rankings, this paper aims to reflect upon this ongoing trend. Through a Christian and Buddhist dialogue, this paper first identifies the culture of academic realism, which we consider increasingly prevalent. Second, in response to such culture, it aims to explore an academic spiritual practice to contain and overcome a post-Christian academic cultural predicament that…
As Wind, Thunder and Lightning
In recent years, transnational Chinese investors from the Greater China region have been seeking natural and mineral resources in foreign countries. This paper focuses on a mineral-rich region in the Philippines where China's resource-led diplomacy was first launched in 2007. Although foreign Chinese mining companies have made inroads into mineral-rich local communities, they have also encountered resistance from non-state actors, causing their o…
Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia
Stretched out along the Western rim of the Pacific, historically torn between Chinese and US influence, the Philippines has been troubled by internal conflicts since its independence in 1946. In 1972, following two decades of communist insurgency and social unrest, President Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law and established a 14-year dictatorship. Although Marcos was overthrown in 1986, the democracy that followed, as in many South-East Asian …
Discerning an African Post-colonial Governance Imbroglio
By attributing recent violent conflicts in Africa to decades of underdevelopment which can be traced back to the colonial times, there is scholarly consent among pan-African scholars that the present African state is a neo-colonial construct and must be democratically reconstituted. In response to the pan-African intellectual-political project, this paper will provide a comparative historical-structural analysis of the post-colonial state formati…
Following the Grain
With respect to the major approaches of state-society relations and Chinese business networks in Southeast Asia, two knowledge gaps are identified. First, little is known about how two sets of dualistic conceptual entities may be connected in the often-contentious state formation process between: (1) the ruling minority and ruled majority; and (2) the nationalising state and grain-producing frontiers. Second, very little is known about the role t…
Frontier Governmentality
One of the shortcomings of the postmodern and poststructuralist intellectual movements is the decentering of the subject, which privileges structuralist and semiotic analyses over human agency and historical changes. This essay aims to provide a remedial theoretical and person-centered interventional scheme which I call frontier governmentality . With respect to existing approaches of Philippine politics and Foucault’s relevant work on subjectivi…
The Art of Governing the Self and Others in the Christian Philippines
Through an ethnographic depiction of cultural creolization, this paper will detail the ways in which traditional Filipino values have been successfully mixing with and eventually lodging into the intersubjective landscape of Cagayan Valley, where the Chinese, Ibanag, Ilocano, and Itawes ethnic groups dwell. This cultural creolization process informs the ways in which the imagined social reciprocity between the self and others has been governed by…
Articulating the Inarticulate from the Margins of the State
The purpose of this essay is to elaborate on the theory and practice of the discursive analytical approach. In response to the epistemological and ontological challenges raised by the PPSJ 2002 forum on Orientalism and Philippine political studies, the discursive analytical approach aims to address power asymmetry in modern knowledge production, between the representing and represented. By examining the theories and practices of representation in…
Towards a More Comprehensive Analysis of Warlord Politics
This article serves as a critique of a recent American foreign policy formulation proposing to eradicate ‘warlordism’ and asserting that democratic institutions can be directly created out of the post-eradication anarchic chaos. Against this background, recent years have indeed seen a bourgeoning literature on ‘warlord politics’ in Southeast Asia. The majority commonly portray political actors as faithful followers of economic rationality and sel…
Outline of an Anthropology of the Modern Philippine State
This article has two objectives: (1) to identify problems and pitfalls of the “weak Philippine state” discourse, and (2) to explore an alternative perspective for analyzing contemporary Philippine political development. It is therefore divided into two parts. The first part provides a critical examination of the “weak Philippine state” discourse in which the central state is argued to be tarnished by the selfish local strongmen and their conceive…
Outline of an Anthropology of the Modern Philippine State
This article has two objectives: (1) to identify problems and pitfalls of the “weak Philippine state” discourse, and (2) to explore an alternative perspective for analyzing contemporary Philippine political development. It is therefore divided into two parts. The first part provides a critical examination of the “weak Philippine state” discourse in which the central state is argued to be tarnished by the selfish local strongmen and their conceive…
Towards a More Comprehensive Analysis of Warlord Politics
This article serves as a critique of a recent American foreign policy formulation proposing to eradicate ‘warlordism’ and asserting that democratic institutions can be directly created out of the post-eradication anarchic chaos. Against this background, recent years have indeed seen a bourgeoning literature on ‘warlord politics’ in Southeast Asia. The majority commonly portray political actors as faithful followers of economic rationality and sel…
As Wind, Thunder and Lightning
In recent years, transnational Chinese investors from the Greater China region have been seeking natural and mineral resources in foreign countries. This paper focuses on a mineral-rich region in the Philippines where China's resource-led diplomacy was first launched in 2007. Although foreign Chinese mining companies have made inroads into mineral-rich local communities, they have also encountered resistance from non-state actors, causing their o…
The Art of Governing the Self and Others in the Christian Philippines
Through an ethnographic depiction of cultural creolization, this paper will detail the ways in which traditional Filipino values have been successfully mixing with and eventually lodging into the intersubjective landscape of Cagayan Valley, where the Chinese, Ibanag, Ilocano, and Itawes ethnic groups dwell. This cultural creolization process informs the ways in which the imagined social reciprocity between the self and others has been governed by…
Frontier Governmentality
One of the shortcomings of the postmodern and poststructuralist intellectual movements is the decentering of the subject, which privileges structuralist and semiotic analyses over human agency and historical changes. This essay aims to provide a remedial theoretical and person-centered interventional scheme which I call frontier governmentality . With respect to existing approaches of Philippine politics and Foucault’s relevant work on subjectivi…
Following the Grain
With respect to the major approaches of state-society relations and Chinese business networks in Southeast Asia, two knowledge gaps are identified. First, little is known about how two sets of dualistic conceptual entities may be connected in the often-contentious state formation process between: (1) the ruling minority and ruled majority; and (2) the nationalising state and grain-producing frontiers. Second, very little is known about the role t…
Articulating the Inarticulate from the Margins of the State
The purpose of this essay is to elaborate on the theory and practice of the discursive analytical approach. In response to the epistemological and ontological challenges raised by the PPSJ 2002 forum on Orientalism and Philippine political studies, the discursive analytical approach aims to address power asymmetry in modern knowledge production, between the representing and represented. By examining the theories and practices of representation in…
Outline of an Anthropology of the Modern Philippine State
This article has two objectives: (1) to identify problems and pitfalls of the “weak Philippine state” discourse, and (2) to explore an alternative perspective for analyzing contemporary Philippine political development. It is therefore divided into two parts. The first part provides a critical examination of the “weak Philippine state” discourse in which the central state is argued to be tarnished by the selfish local strongmen and their conceive…
Towards a More Comprehensive Analysis of Warlord Politics
This article serves as a critique of a recent American foreign policy formulation proposing to eradicate ‘warlordism’ and asserting that democratic institutions can be directly created out of the post-eradication anarchic chaos. Against this background, recent years have indeed seen a bourgeoning literature on ‘warlord politics’ in Southeast Asia. The majority commonly portray political actors as faithful followers of economic rationality and sel…
Articulating the Inarticulate from the Margins of the State
The purpose of this essay is to elaborate on the theory and practice of the discursive analytical approach. In response to the epistemological and ontological challenges raised by the PPSJ 2002 forum on Orientalism and Philippine political studies, the discursive analytical approach aims to address power asymmetry in modern knowledge production, between the representing and represented. By examining the theories and practices of representation in…
Frontier Governmentality
One of the shortcomings of the postmodern and poststructuralist intellectual movements is the decentering of the subject, which privileges structuralist and semiotic analyses over human agency and historical changes. This essay aims to provide a remedial theoretical and person-centered interventional scheme which I call frontier governmentality . With respect to existing approaches of Philippine politics and Foucault’s relevant work on subjectivi…
The Art of Governing the Self and Others in the Christian Philippines
Through an ethnographic depiction of cultural creolization, this paper will detail the ways in which traditional Filipino values have been successfully mixing with and eventually lodging into the intersubjective landscape of Cagayan Valley, where the Chinese, Ibanag, Ilocano, and Itawes ethnic groups dwell. This cultural creolization process informs the ways in which the imagined social reciprocity between the self and others has been governed by…
Following the Grain
With respect to the major approaches of state-society relations and Chinese business networks in Southeast Asia, two knowledge gaps are identified. First, little is known about how two sets of dualistic conceptual entities may be connected in the often-contentious state formation process between: (1) the ruling minority and ruled majority; and (2) the nationalising state and grain-producing frontiers. Second, very little is known about the role t…
Discerning an African Post-colonial Governance Imbroglio
By attributing recent violent conflicts in Africa to decades of underdevelopment which can be traced back to the colonial times, there is scholarly consent among pan-African scholars that the present African state is a neo-colonial construct and must be democratically reconstituted. In response to the pan-African intellectual-political project, this paper will provide a comparative historical-structural analysis of the post-colonial state formati…
As Wind, Thunder and Lightning
In recent years, transnational Chinese investors from the Greater China region have been seeking natural and mineral resources in foreign countries. This paper focuses on a mineral-rich region in the Philippines where China's resource-led diplomacy was first launched in 2007. Although foreign Chinese mining companies have made inroads into mineral-rich local communities, they have also encountered resistance from non-state actors, causing their o…
Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia
Stretched out along the Western rim of the Pacific, historically torn between Chinese and US influence, the Philippines has been troubled by internal conflicts since its independence in 1946. In 1972, following two decades of communist insurgency and social unrest, President Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law and established a 14-year dictatorship. Although Marcos was overthrown in 1986, the democracy that followed, as in many South-East Asian …
The Small Powers in World Politics
This paper aims to conceptualize a framework for better understanding the challenges, actions and rationales of the African and Asian small powers in the post-1989 global order. The paper will be divided into three parts. First, it will review the literature on small power/state studies. Second, following a critique of the major approaches in small power studies, we will argue for the need for a critical realist perspective to better capture the …
U.S.-China Containment and Counter-Containment in Southeast Asia
In 2011, the United States of America ( u.s. ) adopted the “pivot to Asia” (also known as “return to Asia”) foreign policy. In order to provide a critique of this apparent policy change, this paper has two aims. First, we will contextualize such policy agenda against the Anglo-American strategic culture of “containment” as a strand of geopolitical realism and a foreign policy practice against communism. Second, by providing a case study on the ch…
Containing and Dissolving Ontological Violence
In view of the intensifying efforts of Asian universities to compete for global rankings, this paper aims to reflect upon this ongoing trend. Through a Christian and Buddhist dialogue, this paper first identifies the culture of academic realism, which we consider increasingly prevalent. Second, in response to such culture, it aims to explore an academic spiritual practice to contain and overcome a post-Christian academic cultural predicament that…
Destined Statecraft
Destined Statecraft
Strategic Cultures as ‘the Powers’
The Islamic State’s Global-Localization Strategy in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines
Despite the United States and its allies recently declaring the utter defeat of the terrorist organization Islamic State’s (IS) strongholds in Iraq and Syria, the 2019 Easter suicide bombings in Sri Lanka highlights IS’s successful transformation into a globally networked organization. This paper examines IS’s global-localization strategy by identifying the common patterns in its terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines. Thro…
Logic of the Powers
What global future would ensure hope, justice and peace to the human mankind? In view of a fast evolving post-Covid world order, this volume explores a novel Christian post-colonial approach to global affairs. It examines the existing 'sociology of the powers' theoretical scheme, the debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism, the method and practice of prophetic witnessing, to elaborate a new Christian approach to statecraft and fut…
Techno-Geopolitics
Logic of the Powers
Assimilative integration
For decades from the Cold War (1950s–1980s) to the present time, a strand of scholarships concerning the ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia has been persistently informed by the ‘assimilation vs. integration’ debate. At odds with this dualism, this article finds that in contemporary Philippine state-building reality, assimilation and integration of the ethnic Chinese could well co-exist, thus constitute a more nuanced and grounded, if not novel, an…
Toward a futurist approach to hedging strategy in Southeast Asia
Amid China's rise and intensifying China–U.S. competition in the Indo–Pacific region, it is widely consented among international scholars that a key strategy in Southeast Asia's statecraft and geopolitics is the adoption of “hedging” against great powers, to maximize economic gains and mitigate security risks. For more than two decades, academic, strategic, and policy studies of Southeast Asia's hedging strategies have contributed a wealth of div…
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