Dr Aries Arugay (Georgia State University, Ph.D.) is a Visiting Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the Philippine Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute (Singapore). He is also Professor and Chairperson at the Department of Political Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman. His research interests are comparative democratization, security sector governance, foreign and security policy, and digital politics. Aries is the Editor-in-Chief of Asian Politics & Policy, a journal in political science and international relations published by Wiley-Blackwell and the Policy Studies Organization. He has published in Asian Perspective, Pacific Affairs, Journal of East Asian Studies, American Behavioral Scientist, and the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, among others.
