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Walden Bello

Walden Bello
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Alternative Regionalisms
Walden Bello

Senior analyst at Philippine think-tank Focus on the Global South, TNI fellow and Akbayan representative in the Filipino Congress.

Author of more than 14 books, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2003 for "... outstanding efforts in educating civil society about the effects of corporate globalisation, and how alternatives to it can be implemented." Bello has been described by the Economist as the man “who popularised a new term: deglobalisation.”

Bello predicted the financial crisis several years prior to the current meltdown and is a globally respected figure within the alternative globalisation movement. Canadian author Naomi Klein called him the "world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary."

Economic and Financial Crisis; Regionalisms & Globalisation; Alternatives to Corporate Globalisation; International Financial Institutions; World Trade Organisation; Alternative Security in the Asia-Pacific; Food and Agriculture;

South Korea's Suh Sang Don Prize in 2001; Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, in 2003

English

Bello is a regular contributor to numerous periodicals including Review of international Political Economy, Third World Quarterly, Foreign Policy, Race and Class, Le Monde Diplomatique, Le Monde, Guardian, Boston Globe, Far Eastern Economic Review, and La Jornada and has been interviewed by a wide range of international television and radio programmes.

Selected publications: 
Dark Victory
Food Wars
Dilemmas of Domination
De-globalization
The Future in the Balance
The Anti-Development State

Recent content by Walden Bello

The Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention (23 Aug 2011)

Events in Libya and Syria have again brought the legitimacy of armed humanitarian intervention and so-called “responsibility to protect” into question.

As authoritarian China loses luster, TNCs flirt with democratic Indonesia and Brazil (29 Jun 2011)

Make way China! Here come Brazil and Indonesia as new kids on the block for transnational corporations' investments in their global search for cheap labour and social stability.

Osama is no martyr, but the man prevailed (5 May 2011)

The US response to 9/11 over the last decade played right into bin Laden's preferred terrain.

The Arab Revolutions and the Democratic Imagination (7 Mar 2011)

The revolutionary democrats of the Arab world have an opportunity to bring about the next stage in the global democratic revolution.

What can we expect to see in 2011? (13 Jan 2011)

Changing global power balances, continuing crises, Iran, Afghanistan. Four TNI fellows share their predictions for 2011.

The Global Economy in 2011: Recovery Recedes, Convulsion Looms (3 Jan 2011)

As the U.S. and Europe appear to be headed for a deeper economic crisis, some analysts discern a “decoupling” of East Asia and other developing areas from the western economies.

Lessons of the Obama Debacle (13 Oct 2010)

It's not for lack of alternatives that the Left has struggled to harness the opportunity for change offered by the global financial crisis - but for failing to translate this into a political programme that connects with the everyday struggles of people suffering under neoliberalism.

Imperial decline and prospects for a just peace in Palestine (5 Oct 2010)

What we are witnessing today is not only the gradual decline of American power, but also the increasing isolation of Israel.

Roundtable debate on Asia European relations (5 Oct 2010)

Debate between leading European and Asian analysts on the decline of European power, the economic rise of China and India, the likelihood of global recession, climate change and proposed alternatives to the current global economic model.

Key issues on the table at the 8th Asia Europe People's Forum (29 Sep 2010)

Ahead of the Asia Europe People's Forum (AEPF) which coincides with the official ASEM8 summit this year in Brussels, four TNI scholar-activists - Susan George, Praful Bidwai, Ben Hayes and Walden Bello - discuss some of the key struggles facing citizens from both regions.

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