In Fall 2022, he will begin a position as Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at Vanderbilt. Mark John Sanchez is currently a Research Associate in the Office of the Chancellor at Vanderbilt University. This event recognizes the 75th anniversary of Filipino independence from the United States, 1946-2021. We will also discuss the ways that activists and opposition figures continued to demand Philippine sovereignty while working against both corruption in Philippine government and the disproportionate influence of the United States and other nations on the Philippines. ![]() foreign policy as well as the ways that Filipino political elites navigated this time period. foreign policy on the Philippine state from formal independence in 1946 to the declaration of martial law in 1972. Anti-Marcos activists saw this connection as so glaring and apparent that they referred to Marcos’s rule as the “U.S.-Marcos Dictatorship.” This talk will trace the continued influence of U.S. The election of Ferdinand Marcos to the Philippine presidency in 1965, Marcos’s eventual declaration of martial law in 1972, and the continuation of the Marcos authoritarian regime (until 1986) all occurred with the support, both tacit and explicit, of the United States government. From influencing Philippine electoral politics to cultivating the archipelago as an anti-Communist bulwark in Southeast Asia, United States intervention in the Philippines continued well into the period of decolonization. The United States maintained influence on the domestic and foreign policies of the Philippines despite its formal recognition of Philippine independence in 1946. ![]() The American flag is lowered as the flag of the newly independent Philippines is raised on July 4, 1946.
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