By Ho Chi Minh; Walden Bello
Publisher: Verso (November 19, 2007)

Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), the founder of the Vietminh and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, was the archetypical Communist and anti-colonial revolutionary of the twentieth century. He played a key role in the formation of the French, Chinese, and Vietnamese Communist movements and fought successfully against Japanese, French and American imperialism, becoming a hate-figure of the American state during the Vietnam War.

In this volume in the new "Revolutions" series, anti-globalization activist Walden Bello shows why Ho Chi Minh should still be read by anti-colonialists the world over.

By Walden Bello
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks (January 10, 2006)

The empire seems unassailable, but the empire is weak - and precisely because of its imperial ambitions. Walden Bello dissects the dilemmas confronting America in its quest for global domination. Despite the enormity of the U.S. defence budget, American forces are already overextended - and will become more so as each local ‘victory‘ breeds simmering resistance. The empire faces looming economic breakdown, the result of its gargantuan military costs, record-breaking budget deficits, and exploitative trade and investment relations. On the political front, bitter disillusionment is spreading in response to America‘s failure to champion liberal democracy, crony capitalism and gross inequalities of income. Dilemmas of Domination reveals a not-too-distant future in which the empire‘s hidden weaknesses will yield fatal challenges to American supremacy. 

By Walden Bello, Herbert Docena, Marissa de Guzman and Mary Lou Malig
Publisher: Zed Books (March 3, 2006)

Seven million Filipinos live or work abroad. One in five wants to emigrate. What has gone wrong in the 20 years since the popular ousting of President Marcos? In this analysis of the roots of failure, Walden Bello shows how the political system remains dominated by a competitive elite who oppose any significant attempts to address the country‘s huge social inequalities. He pinpoints the unravelling of land reform, the overwhelming power of private interests, the foreign debt service burden, WTO pressure to adopt free market policies, and how sustainable and environmentally friendly development has been consistently undermined by structural adjustment. The way out, he argues, is through the wholesale overhaul of the system of governance, leading to a new development strategy based on more, not less, state intervention, the domestic market as the driver of growth, and working together with other countries in the South.

Joseph Lim, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP
and former Professor, UP School of Economics

Robin Broad, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, American University

James K. Boyce, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Edited by Walden Bello, Nicola Bullard and Kamal Malhotra
Publisher: Zed Books (December 15, 2000)

In this important policy- and campaign-relevant volume, economists, intellectuals and NGO leaders from both North and South confront what has now become the central issue of the new globalized world economy. Ever since the Asian crisis of 1997 threatened a chain-reaction of economic destabilisation, governments, the IMF, even the G7, and even George Soros, have concluded that something needs to be done. This volume examines the range of different ideas and approaches they have come up with. Among the issues examined are:

• How do we go about renewing the process of governance of the global economy?
• Can the IMF be reformed?
• Do we need a new World Financial Authority?
• Is there a case for capital controls?Could an international bankruptcy procedure be set up for countries, emulating the US‘s Chapter 11 for companies?
• Is the Tobin Tax on foreign currency transactions part of the solution?
• What effective steps need to be taken in relation to the most deeply indebted countries?

By Walden Bello
Publisher: Zed Books; Revised Edition (June 30, 2005)

How to manage the global economy - and, more fundamentally, whether humanity wishes it to go in an ever more market-oriented, transnational corporation-dominated, and capital-footloose direction - is the most important international question of our time. In this short and trenchant history of those bodies -- the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and Group of Seven -- which have promoted this economic globalization, Walden Bello:

• Points to their manifest failings
• Examines the major new ideas put forward for reforming the management of the world economy
• Argues for a much more fundamental shift towards a decentralized, pluralistic system of global economic governance allowing countries to follow development strategies sensitive to their own values and particular mix of constraints and opportunities.

By Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld
Publisher: Food First (August 1990)

Challenging the prevailing wisdom on Asia's "miracle economies," Dragons in Distress argues that South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore are headed for crisis.

Writing for a diverse audience, Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld lead their readers on an exploration of the different dimensions of this crisis: environmental degradation, agriculture on the road to extinction, deteriorating labor-management relations, eroding political legitimacy, and deepening structural fissures in the industrial economy. 

By Walden Bello
Edited with a preface by Anuradha Mittal
Publisher: Food First (May 1, 2001)

Third World activist and scholar Walden Bello is one of the most astute and ardent critics of the international financial institutions. His new collection of essays, The Future in the Balance, tells the truth about the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank, and their grip on the Third World.

Rarely have the true causes of the financial crisis -- the American, European, and Japanese financial institutions that advocated free market economies based on the principles of liberalization, deregulation, and privatization -- been so clearly and eloquently spelled out. The essays in The Future in the Balance show how a world has been created where the poor are left to meet their needs in a skyrocketing free market, and protectionism and cronyism exists for banks and corporations. Bello shatters the myths of development as prescribed by these institutions and offers the possibility of another world based on fairness and justice.

By Walden Bello, Shea Cunningham and Bill Rau
Foreword by Susan George
Publisher: Food First; New edition (February 1999)

As we enter the 21st century, many countries of the South are in a state of economic crisis, with once optimistic visions of the future cruelly dashed by rising mass poverty, inequality, and hunger. At the same time, working people in the North find their living standards declining. Dark Victory reveals the roots of these global trends in a sweeping strategy of global economic rollback unleashed by the US to shore up the North's domination of the international economy and reassert corporate control. 

By Walden Bello, Shea Cunningham, and Li Kheng Poh
Publisher: Food First Oakland, CA (1998)

A Siamese Tragedy argues that, even before the collapse, the Thai economy had feet of clay. Walden Bello and his co-authors show how vested interests, local and international, propelled the Thai people down a particular path which is unsustainable in terms of human exploitation, social disruption, ecological damage, and economic fragility.  Thailand, like the rest of the world, needs to rethink the fundamentals of its economic model.