MAJ. DIANNE C DESPI

Major Dianne Despi is a member of the Corps of Professors of the Armed Forces of the Philippines currently serving as Military Assistant at the Office of the Undersecretary for Strategic Assessment and Planning, Department of National Defense. She is a doctoral candidate in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware under the Fulbright Foreign Student Program. She was also a Southeast Asian Young Leader of the 2022 and 2023 Shangri-La Dialogue, and also a reviewer for the Asian Politics and Policy Journal. Her dissertation research focuses on the role of maritime strategic culture in shaping the security behavior of insular Southeast Asian states in contested maritime spaces. Her broader interests include international security, maritime strategy, and regional security dynamics in Southeast Asia.

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