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The eruption of Mount Pinatuba represented more than the smothering of America's Clark Air Force Base and many of President Corazon Aquino's development plans. It also served as a metaphor both for the collapse of Philippine-American base negotiations, presaging an end to nearly a century of strategic relations, and for Aquino's unsuccessful attempt to undo the colossal damage of the Marcos era and construct coherent development programmes. The story of the Aquino era is one of failing efforts to use the vast economic aid which poured into the country, and more successful efforts to put the lid on the communist insurgency in four-fifths of the nation's provinces. The reason for the success was that the unity of the security struggle went unmatched in the economic one, where it was every person for himself or herself. Even the presidential family had its fingers in the economic pie. This book explores the connections between two central functions of Third World governments - development and security - in an analysis of Corazon Aquino's six crisis-filled years as President of the Philippines. Information in the book is updated to reflect recent events, including the change of leadership.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Philippines in Crisis
• Subtitle: Development and Security in the Aquino Era, 1986-91
• Author: W.Scott Thompson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 188
• EAN: 9780312055936
• ISBN: 0312055935
• ID: 04579689
• Publisher: Palgrave USA
• Weight: 376 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. August 1992

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