Raymund Jose G. Quilop

Quilop, an associate professor of political science at the University of the Philippines, is assistant secretary for strategic assessment in the country's Department of National Defense. He has published essays on nuclear issues in Global Asia and Philippine Political Science Journal, and has contributed chapters to The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia and Primed and Purposeful: Armed Groups and Human Security Efforts in the Philippines. In 2000 he received a master's degree in political science from the University of the Philippines, where he also obtained his bachelor's degree (summa cum laude).

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Articles by Raymund Jose G. Quilop

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
5 March 2013

Confronting unavoidable realities

Raymund Jose G. Quilop

Let's face it: The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is widely perceived as an exclusionary mechanism. And perhaps that's what it really is.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
5 February 2013
Asia

Original mission, or expanded goals

Raymund Jose G. Quilop

Reading my colleagues' first-round essays only reinforces my sense that the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is at a crossroads.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 January 2013
Asia

A view from Southeast Asia

Raymund Jose G. Quilop

Nuclear technology has always been a contentious issue. The countries that originally took the lead in developing and acquiring nuclear technology understood very clearly the dangers that the technology posed, and have often sought to prevent nuclear know-how from spreading further.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
31 December 2012

Paths forward for the Nuclear Suppliers Group

Rajiv NayanKayhan BarzegarRaymund Jose G. Quilop

Though the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) may well be indispensable for nonproliferation, its membership of mainly wealthy nations sometimes provokes suspicion in the developing world. Can the NSG contribute to nonproliferation and also remain fair to developing countries?