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A dangerous liaison? Harnessing Weber to illuminate the relationship of democracy and charisma in the Philippines and India
A dangerous liaison? Harnessing Weber to illuminate the relationship of democracy and charisma in the Philippines and...
The Biden Presidency: A New Era, or a Fragile Interregnum?
Donald Trump embarked on an unorthodox course in economic policy that combined tax cuts for the rich with a...
COVID-19, Distorted Development, and Degrowth
The following paper was presented at the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute's Webinar "Sustainable...
The subversion of the Philippines’ Indigenous People’s Rights Act
The following paper was presented under the title The Philippines’ Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act of 1997: Challenges...
Why the Duterte regime could fall victim to COVID-19
People expected a message of hope from his State of the Nation Address, but the Philippine president instead...
The burning question is not if Duterte will go, but how
originally posted on Rappler 'Even Duterte’s usually aggressive DDS true believers and paid trolls are confused and...
The Far Right: Formidable but not Unbeatable
By Walden Bello* The Covid-19 pandemic has frozen much social and economic life throughout the world, but it has not...
The Racial and Genocidal Underpinnings of the American Way of War
The US military command’s pushback against President Donald Trump’s attempt to use the military against people...
How Thailand Contained Covid-19: Why a Public Health System with Popular Support Matters
It was not authoritarian decrees from above but a strategy of persuasion built on a tradition of cooperation between...
How to Improve Myanmar’s Covid-19 Emergency Relief Program
By Walden Bello, Doi Ra Lahkyen, Jenny Franco, Pietje Vervest and Tom Kramer* The Covid-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP)...
The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism
The world’s prevailing socio-political models aren’t going to survive this pandemic. What’s going to replace them? The...