ISBN: 978-93-93082-56-5
Author: Dr. Sanghamitra Patnaik
Year of Publication: 2024
Page Count: 180
Language: English
Description:
This book examines the political upheaval in the Philippines in the 1980s that finally ended twenty years of dictatorship by Ferdinand E. Marcos. The regime change in Manila took place during the Cold War and the Philippines was a key alliance partner of the United States. Washington failed to protect the Marcos regime in the face of the people’s movement against autocracy and nally played a key role in transition of democracy in the Philippines.