UFSI: Universities Field Staff International
(formerly American Universities Field Staff, AUFS)
The Universities Field Staff International (1951–1988) was a nonprofit consortium of American universities whose team of area-specialist associates studied world regions outside the United States, thus filling a gap in global expertise at many universities in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. The associates, or Field Staff, lived in the regions they covered and periodically wrote Reports on matters of current affairs, providing analysis and context. Each year, the associates visited the member universities to lecture and teach. UFSI Reports were not designed to be conventional scholarly articles, but they were meant to be authoritative.
Between 1984 and 1988, I was the UFSI associate for Southeast Asia, following in the wake of Field Staff pioneers Willard Hanna and Albert Ravenholt. The Reports included below address the 1980s political crisis in the Philippines and the evolving role of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a regional institution of consequence in Southeast Asia.
“The Philippine Church: A Faith That Does Justice,” UFSI Reports, no. 31 (1984).
“The Philippine Church: Basic Christian Communities,” UFSI Reports, no. 32 (1984).
“The Voice of Veritas in Philippine Politics,” UFSI Reports, no. 27 (1985).
“Bringing Marcos Down: The Electoral Tradition,” UFSI Reports, no. 3 (1986).
“Bringing Marcos Down: The Opposition Divided,” UFSI Reports, no. 6 (1986).
“Bringing Marcos Down: Suspending Disbelief,” UFSI Reports, no. 7 (1986).
“Bringing Marcos Down: The Miracle of EDSA,” UFSI Reports, no. 29 (1986).
“The Cory Constitution,” UFSI Reports, no. 4 (1987).
“ASEAN and Southeast Asia,” UFSI Reports, no. 5 (1985).
“Making the Neighborhood Safe: Indonesia, ASEAN, and Vietnam,” UFSI Reports, no. 12 (1985).
“The Philippines between PHIL-AM and ASEAN,” UFSI Reports, no. 24 (1987).
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