Introducing the Philippine politics -- The Philippines in maritime Asia to the fourteenth century -- New states and reorientations, 1368-1764 -- State and societies, 1764-1898 -- Nation and states, 1872-1913 -- The Filipino colonial state, 1902-1946 -- All politics is local, 1946-1964 -- Marcos, 1965-1986 -- Democratization, 1986-1998 -- Twenty-first-century Philippine politics.