Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
The news in the lead-up to the G8 meeting here in Rostock is the dispute over the proposed declaration on climate change. German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the rich countries to make a commitment to limit global warming to two degrees centigrade. This will involve...
Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
"The world [is] investing too little," according to one prominent economist. "The current situation has its roots in a series of crises over the last decade that were caused by excessive investment, such as the Japanese asset bubble, the crises in...
Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
The 20th century was a terrible blight on small farmers everywhere. In both wealthy capitalist economies and in socialist countries, farmers paid a heavy price for industrialization. In advanced capitalist countries like the United States, a deadly combination of...
Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
Political sociologists have sometimes described the Chinese Revolution as the product of an alliance between middle class intellectuals and the peasantry. In his innovative revision of Marxist-Leninist theory, Mao Zedong transformed the peasantry, a class disdained by...
Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
With its rise as a modernising economic superpower, China’s involvment in Africa has shifted from the old solidarity rationale to a dangerously single-minded pursuit of economic interest. Forging links between growing Chinese civil society and its African...
