Petra Alderman speaks to John Sidel, Sir Patrick Gillam Chair in Worldwide and Comparative Politics on the LSE, within the newest Individuals, Energy, Politics podcast.
Revealed February 29, 2024
What can airports, buses and undersea web cables inform us about native and nationwide politics within the Philippines? And the way do they place the nation inside the broader regional and world geopolitical struggles for financial improvement and political affect? Take heed to John Sidel as he speaks with Petra Alderman concerning the political financial system of transportation, telecommunications and infrastructure within the Philippines, the assorted monopolies, oligopolies and cartels that characterize them, and their geopolitical significance for China, Japan and the USA .
John Sidel is Sir Patrick Gillam Chair in Worldwide and Comparative Politics on the London Faculty of Economics and Political Science and Director of the Noticed Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. He’s a specialist in Southeast Asia and has carried out intensive analysis in Indonesia and the Philippines on a spread of matters together with native energy, subnational authoritarianism, the political function of Islam, reform campaigns and coalitions.
Petra Alderman is a postdoctoral researcher in Management for Inclusive and Democratic Politics on the College of Birmingham and a Analysis Fellow at CEDAR.