Counterrevolution, the countryside and the middle classes: lessons from five...
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Counterrevolution, the countryside and the middle classes: lessons from five countries
Counterrevolution, the countryside and the middle classes: lessons from five...
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...
Afterthoughts : A Primer on the Wall Street Meltdown (update)
Flying into New York, I had the same feeling I had when I arrived in Beirut two years ago, at the height of the...
The Wall Street Meltdown: the View from Asia
Many Asians absorb what is happening in Wall Street with a combination of déjà vu, skepticism and...
A Primer on the Wall Street Meltdown
Many on Wall Street are still digesting the momentous events of the last ten days: 1-3 trillion dollars worth of...
Towards a New American Isolationism
Despite the glitter that surrounded both the Olympics in Beijing and the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the...
Derailing Doha Trade Deal Essential to Saving Climate
There is something surreal about the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva , which aim at coming up with a...
Japan Follows Singapore in Dealing with Foreign Activists
(Sapporo, July 6, 2008) Trade, climate change, skyrocketing oil prices, and debt have been the topics of discussion in...
How to Manufacture a Global Food Crisis: Lessons from the Philippines, Mexico, and Africa
When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the...
Will Capitalism Survive Climate Change?
There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the change in global mean temperature in the 21st...
We’re at an Impasse…
Faizel Ismail is the head of the delegation to the World Trade Organization of South Africa's Permanent Mission in...