Nearly 20 years after “deglobalization” was introduced as an alternative paradigm by Focus on the Global South, one of...
Publications Articles
The Price of Empire
U.S. elites are not victims of China and Germany’s export-oriented policies. They are engaged in the complex balancing...
Trump and the Asia-Pacific: The Persistence of American Unilateralism
There is a widespread perception, especially among East and Southeast Asian elites, that the United States is in a...
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...
A Siamese Tragedy
The military coup in Thailand is the second high-profile collapse of a democracy in the developing world in the last...
The Crisis of Multilateralism
Already buffeted by institutional crisis and policy conflicts, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World...