Welcome
Welcome
This site contains published and unpublished academic writings of Professor David Wurfel, with particular emphasis on his research on Philippine agrarian policy from the early 1950s onwards.
You can read David’s curriculum vitae here, and an autobiographical essay (in progress) here.
The list below shows all articles currently on the site (we still have many more to scan) sorted by date of publication: there are also menus for different geographic and thematic categories.
- The Philippine Rice Share Tenancy Act 1954/06
- The Violent and the Voiceless in Japanese Politics 1960/11
- Memo to vice-president-elect Emmanuel Pelaez, 1961 1961/12
- Magsaysay and the Philippine Peasantry (review) 1962/02
- The Philippine Elections: Support for Democracy 1962/05
- Okinawa: Irredenta on the Pacific 1962/12
- Prospects for Democracy in Japan 1966/03
- Preliminary Report on the 1967 Elections 1967/09
- The United States in Vietnam (review) 1968/02
- Vietnam Negotiations: Where They Are and Where They May Be Headed 1970/10
- The Philippine Agrarian Crisis 1972/12
- Nationalism, Development And Democracy: Foundations Of Philippine Foreign Policy 1975/07
- The Political Consequences of Land Reform in Southeast Asia 1977/05
- Philippine Agrarian Policy Today: Implementation and Political Impact 1977/05
- The Development of Post-War Philippine Land Reform: Political and Sociological Explanations 1983/03
- Japan-Philippine Relations: Economic and Cultural Determinants of Mutual Images in an Unequal Cooperative Dyad 1986/03
- Report to the United Church of Canada on a trip to Vietnam, May 1986 1986/05
- Land Reform: Contexts, Accomplishments and Prospects under Marcos and Aquino 1989/03
- What Chance for Peace in Indo-China? 1989/03
- State and Society in the Philippines: Capacity and Autonomy in Rural Areas 1989/11
- Philippine Foreign Policy 1990/03
- Elites and Agrarian Reform in the Philippines 1991/02
- Toward an Alternative Land Reform Paradigm (review) 1991/11
- Cambodia: Celebration and Foreboding 1992/01
- Change or Continuity in the Philippines? 1992/12
- “Land Reform” for the Elite: “Voluntary offers to sell” under C.A.R.P. 1993/03
- Change and Continuity in Vietnamese Villages: The Consequences of Decollectivation 1994/09
- Vietnam revisited 1998/01
- Memorandum to Canada-Asia Working Group: Mining and the Marinduque Environment 1998/03
- Between China and ASEAN: The Dialectics of Recent Vietnamese Foreign Policy 1999/07
- Human Security in East Timor? Xanana’s Leadership 1999/10
- Philippine Agrarian Institutions in Transition 2000/07
- Democracy, Nationalism, and Ethnic Identity: The Philippines and East Timor Compared 2004/03
- Autobiography (Part 1) 2008/12