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The Far Right–Formidable but not Unbeatable
The Far Right--Formidable but not Unbeatable...
The Biden Presidency: A New Era or a Fragile Interregnum?
Hewing to its centrist instincts will be a disaster for the Biden administration. The left must seize the...
Bali: A Missed Opportunity
The gap between the urgent threat of global warming and the collective will to do something about it has never been...
The post-Washington dissensus
[World] Bank researchers have...done extremely visible work on globalization, on aid effectiveness, and on growth and...
All fall down: ten years after the Asian financial crisis
Ten years after the Asian financial cataclysm of 1997, the economies of the Western Pacific Rim are growing, though...
The Climate Change Flap at the G8: A Spat over Detail, not Substance
The news in the lead-up to the G8 meeting here in Rostock is the dispute over the proposed declaration on climate...
Chain-Gang Economics: China, the US, and the Global Economy
"The world [is] investing too little," according to one prominent economist. "The current situation has...
Free Trade vs Small Farmers
The 20th century was a terrible blight on small farmers everywhere. In both wealthy capitalist economies and in...
The End of the Affair?
Political sociologists have sometimes described the Chinese Revolution as the product of an alliance between middle...
Beijing?s Diplomacy in Africa Sparks Debate at World Social Forum
With its rise as a modernising economic superpower, China’s involvment in Africa has shifted from the old...
Globalisation in Retreat
When it first became part of the English vocabulary in the early 1990s, globalization was supposed to be the wave of...