2025: Politics and Culture vol. 2

Editorial: The Quagmire of Philippine Politics

Menelito Mansueto

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Featured Articles

Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from Edward Azar’s Protracted Social Conflict Theory

Juichiro Tanabe

War and Peace: From Uruk to Hiroshima, via Yasnaya Polyana and the Modern World in the last 200 years

Layne Hartsell

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Culture of Peace: The Social Character of the Contemporary World

Mark Anthony Lataza

A Genderized, Inclusive, and Friendly View of the Woman on Christian Account of Creation and the Fall of Adam and Eve

Peter Albert Columna

Religious Authority, Toleration, and Political Justice

Christopher Ryan Maboloc

Ricoeur on Pure Reflection: A Guide to Understanding Human Reality

Francis Jeus Ibañez

Indigenous Worldview on Health and Its Implications to Modern Medical Practices, Innovation, and Education

Roger Bayod

Tagay: A Critique of Beverly Sarza’s Analysis of the Filipino Thought in Social Drinking Tradition

Oliver Perater

The Layers of Strata, José Monserrat Maceda’s Asian Musicology: A Case of Decolonization in the Filipino Musicality

Ernesto Zaldua, Oliver Perater, Menelito Mansueto

A Mad World: The Image of War and Peace in Philippine Motion Pictures

Ruben Balotol, Jr.

Integrating Discipline in the Basic Education Curriculum

Rec Eguia and Christopher Ryan Maboloc

Memes, Viral Content, and Digital Stories Constructing Political Narratives and Political Mobilization

Ruel Mesario, Dominador Pagliawan, and Ruben Balotol, Jr.

The Role of Collective Recognition on Political Power

Arnel Morte

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Book Reviews

Ronnie Amorado and Ramis Vilchez. Pedagogy of Fraud: Cheating Practices in Online Classes.

Janice DC Peñaflor and Christopher Ryan Maboloc

Menelito Mansueto. Decolonial Turn in the Philippine South.

Layne Hartsell

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