A Fractured World Reflections on Power, Polarity and Polycrisis

4 February 2025

1:15:19 minutes

Adam Tooze, an award-winning economic historian and Walden Bell, a renowned Filipino scholar activist discuss the fractured state the world is in, the crisis and continuity of neoliberalism, and the opportunities and threats for social movements.

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In this episode, TNI's Nick Buxton speaks to Adam Tooze, and Walden Bello, to examine where geopolitical or geoeconomic power lies today, how it is being exercised and how that might be changing, .

Adam Tooze holds the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of History at Columbia University and serves as Director of the European Institute. In 2019, Foreign Policy Magazine named him one of the top Global Thinkers of the decade.

Walden Bello is a TNI associate and author of more that 20 books, a human rights and peace campaigner, academic, environmentalist and journalist who has made a major contribution to the international case against corporate-driven globalization.

You can find the written edited interview here.