Nearly 20 years after “deglobalization” was introduced as an alternative paradigm by Focus on the Global South, one of...
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Trump and the Asia-Pacific: The Persistence of American Unilateralism
There is a widespread perception, especially among East and Southeast Asian elites, that the United States is in a...
‘Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste’
The Covid-19 pandemic and the opportunity for food sovereignty The Covid-19 pandemic has provoked widespread...
Reading Piketty I: A Concise and Comprehensive Summary of Capital and Ideology
In this summary, Walden Bello distills the key ideas and data contained in Thomas Piketty’s monumental work Capital...
The Bretton Woods Twins in the Era of COVID-19: Time for an Exit Strategy for the Global South?
As they mark their 76th year, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been presented with a grand...
China: An Imperial Power in the Image of the West?
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Focus is releasing a...
Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash
Emerging relatively unscathed from the banking crisis of 2008, China has been viewed as a model of both rampant...
Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right
The far right is on the rise. The rhetoric of anger and resentment is emanating from personalities like Donald Trump,...
Capitalism’s Last Stand?: Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity
In this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's...
The Food Wars
Violent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices from 2006 to 2008, highlighted an...
Walden Bello presents Ho Chi Minh
By Ho Chi Minh; Walden Bello Publisher: Verso (November 19, 2007) Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), the founder of the Vietminh...
Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire
By Walden Bello Publisher: Holt Paperbacks (January 10, 2006) The empire seems unassailable, but the empire is weak -...