Globalization trends : from republican democracy to authoritarianism -- Economic nationalism and the National Treatment Clause : the case of the Philippine constitution vs. the WTO agreement -- International economic integration and the Philippine nation-state : from economic nationalism to national treatment principle -- Transnationalization of the practice of law: comments on the Uruguay Round's general agreement on trade in services -- Impact of multinational corporations on developing economies -- Transnational corporations : toward a definition of a national economic security problem and its resolution -- The Philippine debt crisis in an international setting -- The Philippines and the Baker Plan : background and implications -- U.S. Marshall Plan for the Philippines : U.S. military bases and foreign monopoly capital -- Japan and the industrial integration of ASEAN : the Philippines as a subcontracting state -- Some patterns of political and economic developments in the ASEAN -- The Philippine state : portrait of a failed sovereignty -- The Philippines towards a supranational economic order : the context of GATT