There is a widespread perception, especially among East and Southeast Asian elites, that the United States is in a...
Publications Articles
‘Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste’
The Covid-19 pandemic and the opportunity for food sovereignty The Covid-19 pandemic has provoked widespread...
Reading Piketty I: A Concise and Comprehensive Summary of Capital and Ideology
In this summary, Walden Bello distills the key ideas and data contained in Thomas Piketty’s monumental work Capital...
Requiem for the EDSA State? (Part 2): Regime Change and the Political Economy of Development
Economic and social development is the crying need of the Philippines today, but it cannot take place without...
A Requiem for the EDSA System?
The history of the last 18 years has been a dreary one for most Filipinos. The promise of political liberation...
The Penitent?s Progress
The passage of the Anti-Terror Bill-now incongruously rebaptized the "Human Security Act of 2007"--...
Our Very Own Dirty War
In Argentina, during the “Dirty War” in the mid-seventies, the military used to load tortured university...
Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire
By Walden Bello Publisher: Holt Paperbacks (January 10, 2006) The empire seems unassailable, but the empire is weak -...
The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines
By Walden Bello, Herbert Docena, Marissa de Guzman and Mary Lou Malig Publisher: Zed Books (March 3, 2006) Seven...
Global Finance: New Thinking on Regulating Speculative Capital Markets
Edited by Walden Bello, Nicola Bullard and Kamal Malhotra Publisher: Zed Books (December 15, 2000) In this important...
Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy
By Walden Bello Publisher: Zed Books; Revised Edition (June 30, 2005) How to manage the global economy - and, more...
Dragons in Distress: Asia’s Miracle Economies in Crisis
By Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld Publisher: Food First (August 1990) Challenging the prevailing wisdom on...