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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...
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...
China and Southeast Asia: Emerging Problems in an Economic Relationship
The much publicized wooing of African countries by China exemplified by the China-Africa meeting that took place in...
Interview with Dale Wen: “China Needs an Ecologized Social Democratic System”
Dale Wen's short book China Copes with Globalization: a Mixed Review [PDF], published by the International Forum...
The World Social Forum at the Crossroads
A new stage in the evolution of the global justice movement was reached with the inauguration of the World Social...
Eye of the Hurricane: Milton Friedman and the Global South
While economists laud the recently deceased Milton Friedman for being “a champion of freedom whose work...
Americans Want a New Direction, but will Democrats Lead?
The recent US election was a redemptive election. At a time that many throughout the world had written off the...
Microcredit, Macro Problems
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, regarded as the father of microcredit, comes at a time when...