Publications Articles

The “New Cold War” between the United States and China

As the "New Cold War" between the United States and China threatens to escalate to an unpredictable outcome, two recent publications from Focus on the Global South authored by Walden Bello, provide an indispensable background to this dangerous conflict. Download both...
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Why the Covid 19 Crisis Tells Us that Food Sovereignty is an Idea Whose Time has Come

The global food system has been very much front and center in the Covid 19 story. Every one, of course, is aware that hunger is closely tracking the virus as its wreaks havoc in both the global North and global South. Indeed, one can say that, unlike in East Asia,...
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Martin Khor: The Making of a Global Activist

The late Martin Khor united activists, officials, and thought leaders against trade and climate policies that plundered the Global South. Here’s how his comrades remember him. (Originally posted on fpif.org) When future students of North-South relations look back to...
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Coronavirus and the Death of ‘Connectivity’

Originally posted on Foreign Policy in Focus The Great Recession could have killed globalization, but China emerged as the champion of a new global “connectivity.” With the coronavirus, that phase is finished. The Covid 19 pandemic is the second major crisis of...
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The face of things to come

Jan 7, 2021 |

The storming of Capitol shows America has entered the Weimar Era By mid-February 2021, American deaths from Covid-19...