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                    [Summary] => It’s not you; global politics really have been going haywire lately. 
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-09-25 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Ian Bremmer
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Exit Pax Americana… Enter the Chinese solution?

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[DatePublished] => 2003-05-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 202639 [Title] => History on the gallop: America must pause [Summary] => Any historian worth his salt will tell you the world that emerged in 1945 after the Allies’ smashing victory over Germany and Japan in World War II has virtually vanished into thin air. It was so in 1919. After the heated, contentious but always stirring deliberations of the victors at Versailles, three leaders and three nations stamped their rule virtually all over the world. They were Woodrow Wilson of America, Lloyd George of Great Britain and George Clemenceau of France. [DatePublished] => 2003-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 201298 [Title] => A social contract [Summary] => Most advocates on constitutional reform agree that postponement would be its death knell. That is why they are working hard. If all goes well, we will have elections, no doubt about it but elections under the new reformed Constitution which will be different. It will be less about money or popularity. It will take a bit longer to perfect elections for parliamentary government. Cultivating robust political parties will take more time but a start will be made to put us on the right track. [DatePublished] => 2003-04-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200097 [Title] => A frightening new world: Pax Americana staggers [Summary] => We are shocked, we are awed by the unrelenting ferocity of America’s bombardment and dismemberment of Baghdad. Once upon a time, Baghdad was the richest city in the world under the caliphates of al-Mahdi and Harun al-Raschid (786-809 AD). It was also in ancient Baghdad where The Thousand and One Nights drew its sensual and exotic lore before the year 1258. This was when Hulegu, the fearsome Mongol conqueror sacked Baghdad and massacred hundreds of thousands. Then and there Baghdad’s potential for universal greatness was crippled for all time. [DatePublished] => 2003-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 155303 [Title] => Fire in the East: RPs’ strategic location [Summary] =>
(First of two parts)
We have all been greatly perturbed by the increasing temblors shaking the country these past few months. Or is it the past year since civil society started to desert President Joseph Estrada? As it was, we were shocked and shaken by a maze of scandals perpetrated by Estrada, his administration and his midnight barkada. This led to EDSA or People Power II and Estrada’s disgraceful fall from the heights. [DatePublished] => 2002-03-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 147484 [Title] => Bethlehem busting loose / More on the Americans [Summary] => There is every doubt these days that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo can ever bring the ship into port. That was a doubt this writer expressed many columns back. We wrote she possibly couldn’t hack it all the way to 2004. This was not because she was incompetent or ill-prepared for the presidency but because the ship had caught fire and would eventually devour her. In which case, GMA would have to abandon ship or — like the intrepid and heroic captains of yore — go down with it full-bore and full-masted.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => From Pax Americana to geopolitical recession
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                    [DatePublished] => 2019-09-25 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136414
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1805293
                    [AuthorName] => Ian Bremmer
                    [SectionName] => Opinion
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                    [Title] => The Chinese solution
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Exit Pax Americana… Enter the Chinese solution?

[DatePublished] => 2018-01-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 208088 [Title] => Special award for GMA / On course for 2004? [Summary] => If this columnist had a few remaining doubts that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was now officially "the Asian darling" of America, they were dispelled by the headline story of the International Herald Tribune Thursday. The story, a gold-plated New York Times original, bylined David E. Sanger, had this key paragraph: "And last week (President George W. [DatePublished] => 2003-05-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206693 [Title] => Pygmalion and GMA [Summary] => I have this feeling in my bones. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will retract her pledge not to run for the presidency in 2004. She will probably announce this decision sometime in October-November-December as the nation prepares to celebrate the Yuletide and is bathed in the glow of Christmas. Half or less than half of this decision will be hers. The other, weightier half will come from the Great White Father. George (Dubya) Bush appears determined that GMA stay on as president for as long as America’s geo-political strategy in Asia remains on the drawing boards.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 202639 [Title] => History on the gallop: America must pause [Summary] => Any historian worth his salt will tell you the world that emerged in 1945 after the Allies’ smashing victory over Germany and Japan in World War II has virtually vanished into thin air. It was so in 1919. After the heated, contentious but always stirring deliberations of the victors at Versailles, three leaders and three nations stamped their rule virtually all over the world. They were Woodrow Wilson of America, Lloyd George of Great Britain and George Clemenceau of France. [DatePublished] => 2003-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 201298 [Title] => A social contract [Summary] => Most advocates on constitutional reform agree that postponement would be its death knell. That is why they are working hard. If all goes well, we will have elections, no doubt about it but elections under the new reformed Constitution which will be different. It will be less about money or popularity. It will take a bit longer to perfect elections for parliamentary government. Cultivating robust political parties will take more time but a start will be made to put us on the right track. [DatePublished] => 2003-04-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200097 [Title] => A frightening new world: Pax Americana staggers [Summary] => We are shocked, we are awed by the unrelenting ferocity of America’s bombardment and dismemberment of Baghdad. Once upon a time, Baghdad was the richest city in the world under the caliphates of al-Mahdi and Harun al-Raschid (786-809 AD). It was also in ancient Baghdad where The Thousand and One Nights drew its sensual and exotic lore before the year 1258. This was when Hulegu, the fearsome Mongol conqueror sacked Baghdad and massacred hundreds of thousands. Then and there Baghdad’s potential for universal greatness was crippled for all time. [DatePublished] => 2003-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 155303 [Title] => Fire in the East: RPs’ strategic location [Summary] =>
(First of two parts)
We have all been greatly perturbed by the increasing temblors shaking the country these past few months. Or is it the past year since civil society started to desert President Joseph Estrada? As it was, we were shocked and shaken by a maze of scandals perpetrated by Estrada, his administration and his midnight barkada. This led to EDSA or People Power II and Estrada’s disgraceful fall from the heights. [DatePublished] => 2002-03-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 147484 [Title] => Bethlehem busting loose / More on the Americans [Summary] => There is every doubt these days that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo can ever bring the ship into port. That was a doubt this writer expressed many columns back. We wrote she possibly couldn’t hack it all the way to 2004. This was not because she was incompetent or ill-prepared for the presidency but because the ship had caught fire and would eventually devour her. In which case, GMA would have to abandon ship or — like the intrepid and heroic captains of yore — go down with it full-bore and full-masted.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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