Aletheia Kerygma B. Valenciano

Aletheia Kerygma B. Valenciano

Assistant Professor

Room 311, Bulwagang Silangang Palma
Africa Street
University of Philippines Diliman, Quezon City

abvalenciano@up.edu.ph

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Aletheia Kerygma B. Valenciano is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (cum laude) from the University of the Philippines Diliman, and her Master of Arts in International Politics (Chinese Politics and Diplomacy) from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Her thesis looked into the regional causes and domestic political conditions of China’s track 2 diplomacy in Southeast Asia. She was a recipient of the Chinese Government Scholarship from 2017 to 2019 for her master’s degree. During her graduate studies, she was also a teaching assistant for the graduate course on Contemporary Chinese Diplomacy.

She is currently the Managing Editor of Asian Politics & Policy, and a fellow at Pacific Forum’s Young Leader’s Program. She was also a fellow of the U.S. Department of State’s Quad-ASEAN Exhchange Program in 2024; a visiting fellow at SIRPA-Fudan’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Program in 2023; and a visiting scholar at the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), where she conducted research in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangxi on China-ASEAN regional diplomacy in 2018.

Before joining the academe, she worked as a researcher for several policy research institutes and think tanks. 

Education

  • Master of Arts in International Politics (Chinese Politics and Diplomacy), Fudan University
  • Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (cum laude), University of the Philippines, Diliman

Research Interests

Chinese foreign policy and diplomacy, China-ASEAN relations, security studies, geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, and domestic politics and foreign policy nexus in international relations

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

  • Arugay, A., Donald, A.A., Jarvis, F. B., Valenciano, A.K.B. When Does Decision-Making Reflect Agency? Evidence from the Rural Philippines. Policy Research Working Paper (Issue 10851). Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-10851.
  • Valenciano, A. K. B. (2023). Securitizing Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Threats: China’s Track 2 Diplomacy in Southeast Asia. Asian International Studies Review, 24(2), 199-227. https://doi.org/10.1163/2667078x-bja10027.

Book Chapters

  • Valenciano, A.K.B., Arugay, A.A. (2021). Actors and Stakeholders in Non-traditional Security. In: Romaniuk, S., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_160-1
  • Valenciano, A.K.B., Arugay, A.A. (2022). Regional Security Organizations. In: Romaniuk, S., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_114-1

Policy Paper

Courses Taught

  • POLSC 130: Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • POLSC 180: Introduction to International Relations
  • POLSC 187: Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy
  • Soc Sci 2: Social, Economic, and Political Thought