Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology is a wide-ranging exploration of the origins, maintenance, and persistence of...
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Central front of the new Cold War
How US and China stack up on the strategic front in the Asia-Pacific region During the Trump administration, there...
Interview with Oksana Boyko on Russia Today (RT)
Interview with Oksana Boyko on Russia Today (RT)Revenge of revanche? Walden Bello, international adjunct professor at...
Women’s rights: Turning point in India, triumph in Manila
Women’s rights have been in the forefront of international concern over the last few weeks. Up in arms against rape...
Why the Philippines cannot afford to be “Like-Minded” in Doha
(This article was co-authored by Richard Javad Heydarian.) Seldom has a global conference been so devoid of positive...
Confronting the Continuing Power Crisis
Power rates in the Philippines are the highest in Asia and rank fifth in the world. Brownouts lasting several hours a...
China’s Transformation: A Southeast Asian Perspective
Over the last week, China has been undergoing a once-in-a-decade leadership transition. It is an event that will have...
Obama’s victory: How it happened and what it means
Washington, DC, Nov 7, 2012–The polls had pointed to a very close election, and those of us who gathered around a...
Stuck with Obama
As many pundits have noted, if the rest of the world were voting in the US elections, the third presidential debate...
Economic crisis shakes old paradigms
The world will soon enter the 6th Year of the Great Recession, and there is no end in sight. In the United States,...
Healing Syria’s Gushing Wound
(This article was co-authored with Richard Javad Heydarian.*) Almost 18 months after the onset of popular-democratic...
An island of growth in a stagnant sea
The economic news on the Philippines the last few weeks has been good. The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...