Faculty Details

Belinda Aquino

Professor of Political Science
Asian Studies
Moore 414

(808) 956-2686
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Educational Background

B.A., University of the Philippines, 1957
M.A., University of Hawaii, 1965
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1974 

Research / Teaching / Specializations

Comparative politics: Southeast Asia and the Philippines, politics of corruption, Marcos' "hidden wealth" and recovery efforts, women and politics

Distinctions

Chair, SEA Council of the Association for Asian Studies 2000
Director, Center for Philippine Studies

Courses Taught

ASAN 393P: Field Study (Philippines)
ASAN 491P: Asian Studies Topics: Philippines
ASAN 750P: Research Seminar on the Philippines
POLS 345B: Politics of Regions: Southeast Asia
POLS 345G: Comparative Politics: Philippine Politics
POLS 680: Asian Politics: Philippines (Seminar)

Recent Publications

Year Two of the Estrada Presidency, Journal of the International Institute, forthcoming 2000

Politics of Plunder: The Philippines Under Marcos (second edition with Epilogue), University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance, Manila, 1999

Filipino Elections and 'Illiberal' Democracy, Public Policy (University of the Philippines), 2/3 (July-Sept 1998)

Joseph Ejercito 'Erap' Estrada: The Centennial President, review essay, Philippine Journal of Public Administration (University of the Philippines), 42/3-4 (July-Oct, 1998)

The Transnational Dynamics of the Marcos Plunder Journal of Asian and African Studies, Tokyo, Sept. 1998

Politics and Government: EDSA as Vision and Liberation, in Lorna Kalaw-Tirol, ed. Looking Back, Looking Forward (Manila: Foundation for Worldwide People Power, 1996)

The Human Rights Debacle in the Philippines, in Naomi Roht Arriaza, ed. Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice, (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)

The Administration of Justice in the Philippines, ed. (University of the Philippines, Center for Integrative and Development Studies, 1995)