WPS Foundation Launches WPS Dispatch, a New Platform for Maritime-Oriented Analysis on the West Philippine Sea and the Indo-Pacific

MANILA, Philippines — The WPS Foundation today announced the launch of WPS Dispatch, a new peer-reviewed opinion and analysis platform dedicated to making sense of developments in the West Philippine Sea, the South China Sea, and the wider maritime Indo-Pacific.

Published by the Manila-based WPS Foundation, WPS Dispatch will feature clear, timely, and policy-relevant perspectives from scholars, practitioners, journalists, legal experts, security analysts, and emerging voices working on maritime security, international law, regional diplomacy, information integrity, and ocean governance.

The platform is being launched at a time of intensifying geopolitical competition, legal contestation, and information disorder surrounding the South China Sea. WPS Dispatch seeks to provide a credible space for evidence-based debate, informed commentary, and accessible analysis for policymakers, media, researchers, students, and the broader public.

“Many excellent platforms already publish opinion and analysis on foreign policy and regional affairs. What WPS Dispatch seeks to add is a distinctly maritime-oriented space — one that examines how maritime security and ocean governance connect with broader questions of economics, critical technologies, diplomacy, environmental protection, and regional security,” said Dr. Jeffrey Ordaniel, President and CEO of the WPS Foundation.

“Our aim is to publish peer-reviewed commentary that is serious, accessible, and policy-relevant, while bringing together senior experts and emerging voices — scholars, analysts, journalists, and practitioners alike. We also hope WPS Dispatch can help feed into and enrich the discussions of the annual Manila Dialogue on the South China Sea by surfacing ideas, evidence, and perspectives that deserve wider attention.”

The first set of articles reflects the platform’s maritime-oriented and policy-focused approach, bringing together senior experts, researchers, and practitioners working across security, media, technology, and regional affairs. It features Dr. Euan Graham, Expert Associate at the Australian National University’s National Security College and non-resident Senior Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, on the Philippines’ new ASEAN Maritime Center; Dr. Ja Ian Chong, Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore and Nonresident Scholar at Carnegie China, on compellence and the risks of crisis and disorder in East Asia; Dr. Lupita Wijaya, Research Fellow at the La Trobe Centre for Global Security, on maritime narratives and information contestation; Jason Wang, national security researcher and Chief Operating Officer of ingeniSPACE, on China’s irregular warfare at sea; and Frances Mangosing’s analysis on China’s intensified presence around Scarborough Shoal ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 2016 South China Sea Arbitral Award.

WPS Dispatch will publish commentaries, essays, explainers, and analysis on issues including the implementation and relevance of the 2016 South China Sea Arbitral Award, maritime law enforcement, gray-zone coercion, disinformation, regional security cooperation, ASEAN maritime diplomacy, marine environmental protection, critical maritime infrastructure, and the future of ocean governance.

The platform welcomes contributions from Philippine and international authors whose work advances data-driven, evidence-based, and policy-relevant discussions on the West Philippine Sea, the South China Sea, and the maritime Indo-Pacific.

WPS Dispatch is now available at dispatch.wps-ph.org.

 

About WPS Dispatch

WPS Dispatch is a peer-reviewed opinion and analysis platform published by the WPS Foundation. It provides clear, timely, and policy-relevant perspectives on the West Philippine Sea, the South China Sea, and the wider maritime Indo-Pacific. The platform brings together senior experts, emerging voices, analysts, journalists, scholars, and practitioners working on maritime security, international law, regional diplomacy, information integrity, critical technologies, the environment, and ocean governance.

About the WPS Foundation

The WPS Foundation is a Manila-based, non-government, nonprofit, and nonpartisan research organization that advances principled approaches to resolving disputes in the West Philippine Sea and the broader South China Sea through rigorous research and dialogues with academia, public policy, military and industry.

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