Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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Beijing?s Diplomacy in Africa Sparks Debate at World Social Forum
With its rise as a modernising economic superpower, China’s involvment in Africa has shifted from the old solidarity...
Globalisation in Retreat
When it first became part of the English vocabulary in the early 1990s, globalization was supposed to be the wave of the...
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 Beijing...
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 on...
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 Forum...
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 transformed...