Aries A. Arugay
Aries A. Arugay is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines Diliman. His research interests are civil-military relations, comparative democratization, security studies, and Philippine foreign policy. In recognition of his scientific research accomplishments, Professor Arugay was also conferred the rank of UP Scientist II (2019-2021) and UP Scientist III (2022-2024).
Aries is also a Visiting Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the Philippine Studies Programme of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies – Yusof-Ishak Institute (Singapore) and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Politics & Policy, an academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell and the Policy Studies Organization. He was a visiting scholar at the Universidad Mayor de San Simón (Bolivia), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), University of Sydney, Jeju Peace Institute (South Korea), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the National Institute of Defense Studies (Japan).
He has published in academic journals such as the American Behavioral Scientist, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Asian Perspective, International Affairs, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Journal of East Asian Studies, Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, Pacific Affairs, Philippine Political Science Journal, among others, and wrote several book chapters published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan. Aries is co-editor of the edited volume Games, Changes, & Fears: The Philippines from Duterte to Marcos Jr. (ISEAS, 2024).
Professor Arugay is a member of the Board of Trustees and Treasurer of the Foundation for the National Interest, Inc., an independent think-tank based in Manila. As a Track II diplomacy practitioner, he has participated in more than one hundred international meetings, workshops, and consultations on regional security, geopolitics, democratic governance, and ASEAN integration. Aries regularly conducts lectures and handles modules for different training institutions, such as the National Defense College of the Philippines, the Philippine Public Safety College, the Foreign Service Institute, and the Development Academy of the Philippines. He is one of the country’s leading political analysts often interviewed by domestic and foreign media.
In recognition of his accomplishments, Aries received the 2019 Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement from his alma mater, Georgia State University. In 2020, the National Academy of Science and Technology of the Philippines awarded him as an Outstanding Young Scientist (Political Science), the second political scientist to ever receive this award.
He obtained his PhD in Political Science from Georgia State University (United States) as a Fulbright Fellow and his MA and BA (cum laude) in Political Science from the University of the Philippines-Diliman.
