Recording: Duterte, Democracy, and the 2022 National Elections in the Philippines

Walden Bello in Conversation with John Gershman, Clinical Professor of Public Service at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School Of Public Service at New York University.

Sponsored by Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at New York University; co-sponsored by the New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) and the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS).

Walden Bello is International Adjunct professor of sociology at Binghampton University, Co-Chairperson of the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South, and chair of the progressive coalition Laban ng Masa. He previously was a professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines. For his scholarship and activism, he received the Right Livelihood Award (aka Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2003 and was named Outstanding Public Scholar by the International Studies Association in 2008. Also active in parliamentary politics, he was a member of the Philippines’ House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015, heading up that institution’s Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs.He is the author or co-author of 25 books, the most recent of which are Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right (2019) and Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash (2019).

Watch the full event below or on the Sulo YouTube channel.