Aries A. Arugay

Aries A. Arugay is Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Asian Politics & Policy, a Scopus-indexed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell and the Policy Studies Organization and a Visiting Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the Philippines Studies Programme of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies-Yusof-Ishak Institute (Singapore).

He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on comparative politics and international relations. He is one of the first members of the Democracy Erosion Consortium, an global initiative to commonly offer a university-level course on democratic erosion around the world. Since 2024, Arugay is also a member of the Global Challenges to Democracy Working Group established by the Toda Peace Institute.

Arugay has conducted research on democratisation and democratic erosion for the past two decades. His research interests include civil-military relations, populism, polarisation, electoral politics, and foreign policy. He obtained his PhD in Political Science from Georgia State University (United States) in 2014 as a Fulbright Fellow and his MA and BA (cum laude) in Political Science from the University of the Philippines-Diliman.