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Over the last two years, the Obama administration has executed what the president has termed the “Pivot to Asia” strategy, whereby the…
Walden Bello
Walden Bello is currently the International Adjunct Professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Co-Chairperson of the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South. He is the author or co-author of 25 books, including Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right (Nova Scotia: Fernwood, 2019), Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash (London: Bloomsbury/Zed, 2019), Food Wars (London: Verso, 2009) and Capitalism’s Last Stand? (London: Zed, 2013).
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The freer flow of commodities and capital has been one of the features of the contemporary process of globalization. Unlike in the…
The sound of what seems like thunder wakes me up at 3 am, Monday, a few hours after I arrived in Damascus.…