Speaker: Dr. *Walden Flores Bello*

Title: *President Rodrigo Dutert of the Philippines: A Fascist Original*

Date and Time: *February 7 (Tue.) 16:00-18:00*, 2017
Venue: Seminar Room (No.107) on the 1st floor of East Bldg (東棟1階), Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

About the speaker:
Walden Bello is a visiting senior research scholar at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University, an associate of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute, and a professor at the Department of Sociology of the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, the most recent of which are as flollows;
    – State of Fragmentation: The Philippines in Transition, Manila: Focus on the Global South, 2014,
    – Capitalism’s Last Stand, London: Zed, 2013,
    – Food Wars, London: Verso, 2009, and
    – Dilemmas of Domination, New York: Henry Holt, 2005

He was a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2009 to 2015.

Please kindly see the following articles by him for reference;

— “Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Is a Wildly Popular Fascist”
https://www.thenation.com/article/philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte-is-a-wildly-popular-fascist/
— “Japan: From semi-sovereignty to splendid isolation?”
http://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/158355-will-japan-stand-splendid-isolation-abe-duterte-trump