Since his election in 2016, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has directed a brutal anti-drug campaign rife with extrajudicial killings. Interpreting the war on drugs through the conceptual frameworks of penal populism, noble cause corruption, revanchism, and state terrorism, William N. Holden argues the war on drugs has failed to achieve its purpose, follows trends of authoritarian populism, and overlooks a more pressing social issue—the vulnerability of the Philippines to climate change.
Since his election in 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has directed a brutal anti-drug campaign. William N. Holden examines the motives and organizational methods of the campaign by analyzing it through conceptual frameworks of penal populism, noble cause corruption, revanchism, and state terrorism.
