RACHEL A.G. REYES
IN the rapidly growing field of Duterte studies in the academic world — yes, there is such a body of scholarship now — chances are that you will not have heard of an American student named Lisa Kaman. In 2017 she submitted a paper to the faculty of the US Naval War College in Rhode Island and to the Department of Joint Military Operations. She argued that to best understand the new Philippine President, one had to look at Davao.