Walden Bello
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 74987 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Walden Bello |
| PRENOMES | Walden |
| SOBRENOME | Bello |
| ASSINATURA | BELLO W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4169-3301 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 134 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Global Battlefields
Overextension and Globalization
The global order is undergoing a crisis of hegemonic decline that has two dimensions that are distinct but deeply related. One is a crisis of the American empire that could best be characterized as one of 'overextension'. This is principally a military and political crisis, which has mainly unfolded in the Middle East. The other ongoing crisis is that of US economic decline brought about by the dynamics of global capitalism, the main aspects of w…
From Partnership to Rivalry
Two unconnected crises in the 1970s, a crisis of profitability of global capitalism and a deep crisis of political legitimacy in China, led to creation of a formidable alliance between corporate/financial-led US capital and the Chinese state that sought to resolve both crises by opening China for corporate exploitation. The solution, however, masked different objectives. Transnational corporations moved to China in search of cheap labour to count…
Deglobalisierung – Zwanzig Jahre später
Leseprobe ----- Bibliographie: Bello, Walden: Deglobalisierung – Zwanzig Jahre später (Zur Diskussion), PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, Nr. 161 (1-2021), S. 94-113. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v41i1.05
The Far Right
The level of discontent and alienation with neoliberalism was already very high in the Global North before the coronavirus hit, owing to the inability of the established elites to reverse the decline and living standards and skyrocketing inequality in the dreary decade that followed the financial crisis. And in much of the Global South, the chronic crisis of underdevelopment under peripheral capitalism, exacerbated by neoliberal 'reforms' since t…
A dangerous liaison? Harnessing Weber to illuminate the relationship of democracy and charisma in the Philippines and India
Democratic elections in the Philippines and India in 2019 yielded a paradoxical result: the strengthening of the political hegemony of personalities partial to authoritarian rule. An examination of economic, social, and political conditions prior to the elections shows that the usual paradigms used to explain voters' choices - class theory, rational choice theory, and patron-client theory - fail to account for the sweeping victories of Philippine…
The Impact of Global Financial Crises
This chapter focuses on the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and shows the long-term impacts of the GFC on US politics and global economic policy. In particular, the chapter analyzes the surprisingly inadequate response of the Obama administration, which accelerated the failure of Keynesianism and opened the door to Hillary Clinton’s stunning 2016 electoral loss to the national populist Donald Trump. The chapter argues that the unfolding of the…
On Liberalism and the Postcolony
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Counterrevolution, the countryside and the middle classes
Inequality, Democracy and the Middle Class
Inconvenient truths
Public sociology involves challenging received wisdoms. Thus, it requires unusual fortitude, as these wisdoms are embedded in common sense, itself backed up by interests and sometimes force. To change what is taken to be common sense, such as neoliberal orthodoxy, therefore, can be accomplished most effectively through a social movement. To challenge conventional wisdom requires the discovery of truth and that can call for unorthodox methods, suc…
Capitalism’s Last Stand
‘Walden Bello is the world’s leading no-nonsense revolutionary.’ - Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine In this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's multiple crises. Trenchant but constructive, Bello's analysis of the collapse of the global real economy, covering such issues as the Wall Street meltdown, the disintegration of the Greek economy, and the rise of China, emp…
Pivotal Moment
Climate and Capitalism in Copenhagen
Beginning in the second week of December 2009, the representatives to the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen will wrestle with the challenge of climate change. This week, influential actors in the World Trade Organization Seventh Ministerial Conference taking place in Geneva are trying to push for a conclusion to the nine-year-old Doha Round of trade negotiations. The two meetings are at cross-purposes and their juxtaposition highlig…
Peter Gowan, author of The Global Gamble
Food Wars
In 2006-08, food shortages became a global reality, with the prices of commodities spiraling beyond the reach of vast numbers of people. International agencies were caught flatfooted, with the World Food Program warning that its rapidly diminishing food stocks might not be able to deal with the emergency.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF vers…
La Crisis Capitalista Y Respuesta Política De La Izquierda
El siguiente artículo es la reproducción de una ponencia presentada en la Conferencia sobre la Crisis Global el pasado 21 de marzo en Berlín, organizada por el Partido de la Izquierda Alemán. Se discuten primeramente, los orígenes y dinámica de la crisis actual; después se exploran las posibilidades de una estrategia para la izquierda global, capaz de responder a la presente crisis en el contexto de los desafíos precedentes, tanto del centro capi…
Civil Society, the World Social Forum, and the Crisis of the Globalist Project—A Commentary
In my comment, I will address the topic of civil society and the crisis of corporate-driven globalization and its key institutions. Let me speak from personal experience. Ten years ago, in 1996, I
A very capitalist disaster
Naomi Klein (2007) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. New York: Metropolitan Books, US$28 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-676 97800-1 Even before I read his review of Naomi Klein's The Sh
Why Am I Engaged
Globalization and the Third World
B.N. Ghosh and Halil M. Guven (eds.) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN: 0-230-00467-9, 269 pp. This book is part of a wave of works critical of the claims of the partisans of globalisatio
How to Manufacture a Global Food Crisis
How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture-and who's fighting back.The global rise in food prices is not only a consequence of using food crops to produce biofuels, but of the "free trade" policies promoted by international financial institutions. Now peasant organisations are leading the opposition to a capitalist industrial agriculture
Globalization in Retreat
All Fall Down
Ten years after the Asian financial cataclysm of 1997, the economies of the Western Pacific Rim are growing, though not at the rates they enjoyed before the crisis. The region has been indelibly scarred by the crisis. There is greater poverty, inequality, and social destabilization than before the crisis. South Korea's painful labor market reforms, for instance, have produced the quiet desperation behind one of the highest suicide rates among dev…
China and the Future of the World Economy
Japan Focus presents two complementary perspectives on the challenges facing China and the world economy in the context of global over-accumulation. In 1997, China emerged unscathed from the economic collapse that set back Japan and then Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, and other high-flying Asian economies. The present analyses pose the question of whether China, too, is now vulnerable, with consequences that will be felt throughout the world economy…
Counterrevolution, the countryside and the middle classes
East Asia
Seven months after the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) moved into the eye of the economic typhoon ravaging the region. The Fund's high profile coincides with the spread of the deflationary and inflationary effects of the financial collapse on the real economy of the region, making the period potentially explosive
Taming the tigers
This article is a contribution to the debate over Asia's economic crisis. In particular it explores the actions and motives of one of the key actors in the Asian crash-the International Monetary Fund. The article demonstrates that the IMF does not have a monopoly of social or economic wisdom (far from it). If the Fund's neoliberal crusaders can be reined in, and alternatives explored, the crisis can offer Asia the chance to forge democratic and s…
Democratization and Stabilization in the Philippines
The coming to power of Corazon Aquino in the Philippines in 1986 represented the restoration of elite democracy after 14 years of dictatorship. Elite democracy derives its strength from the fact that no matter how cynically the Filipino citizenry might view the electoral process, most Filipinos see no alternative to the ballot as a legitimate means of political succession. Key sectors of the U.S. national security establishment understood this an…
On Liberalism and the Postcolony
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
The iron cage
2000). The iron cage: The world trade organization, the bretton woods institutions, and the South. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 3-32
Battling Barbarism
Development
Published in: Foreign Policy, 12/1990, Issue 81
A dangerous liaison? Harnessing Weber to illuminate the relationship of democracy and charisma in the Philippines and India
Democratic elections in the Philippines and India in 2019 yielded a paradoxical result: the strengthening of the political hegemony of personalities partial to authoritarian rule. An examination of economic, social, and political conditions prior to the elections shows that the usual paradigms used to explain voters' choices - class theory, rational choice theory, and patron-client theory - fail to account for the sweeping victories of Philippine…
Food Wars
In 2006-08, food shortages became a global reality, with the prices of commodities spiraling beyond the reach of vast numbers of people. International agencies were caught flatfooted, with the World Food Program warning that its rapidly diminishing food stocks might not be able to deal with the emergency.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF vers…
A very capitalist disaster
Naomi Klein (2007) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. New York: Metropolitan Books, US$28 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-676 97800-1 Even before I read his review of Naomi Klein's The Sh
The capitalist conjuncture
This article argues that the key crisis that has overtaken today's global economy is the classical capitalist crisis of over-accumulation. Reaganism and structural adjustment were efforts to overcome this crisis in the 1980s, with little success, followed by globalisation in the 1990s. The Clinton administration embraced globalisation as the ‘Grand Strategy’ of the USA, its two key prongs being the accelerated integration of markets and productio…
The limits of reform
With the appointment in 1995 of James Wolfensohn to the presidency of the World Bank began an attempt to recast the negative image that the Bank had acquired as a result of its widely criticised structural adjustment programmes, land resettlement schemes and large dam projects in developing countries. 'Poverty reduction' and 'good governance' were to be the new watchwords, and civil society organisations were invited to engage in a process of dia…
The Asian financial crisis
Since mid‐1997 East Asia, which had long been acclaimed as the driving force of the global economy, has been wracked by financial turmoil. The international policy response has been led primarily by the International Monetary Fund with the full support of both the United States government and the European Union. Those who predicted that IMF policy prescriptions would quickly bring the Asian economic crisis under control have seriously underestima…
From Partnership to Rivalry
Two unconnected crises in the 1970s, a crisis of profitability of global capitalism and a deep crisis of political legitimacy in China, led to creation of a formidable alliance between corporate/financial-led US capital and the Chinese state that sought to resolve both crises by opening China for corporate exploitation. The solution, however, masked different objectives. Transnational corporations moved to China in search of cheap labour to count…
Confronting the Brave New World Economic Order
Overextension and Globalization
The global order is undergoing a crisis of hegemonic decline that has two dimensions that are distinct but deeply related. One is a crisis of the American empire that could best be characterized as one of 'overextension'. This is principally a military and political crisis, which has mainly unfolded in the Middle East. The other ongoing crisis is that of US economic decline brought about by the dynamics of global capitalism, the main aspects of w…
Inconvenient truths
Public sociology involves challenging received wisdoms. Thus, it requires unusual fortitude, as these wisdoms are embedded in common sense, itself backed up by interests and sometimes force. To change what is taken to be common sense, such as neoliberal orthodoxy, therefore, can be accomplished most effectively through a social movement. To challenge conventional wisdom requires the discovery of truth and that can call for unorthodox methods, suc…
Climate and Capitalism in Copenhagen
Beginning in the second week of December 2009, the representatives to the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen will wrestle with the challenge of climate change. This week, influential actors in the World Trade Organization Seventh Ministerial Conference taking place in Geneva are trying to push for a conclusion to the nine-year-old Doha Round of trade negotiations. The two meetings are at cross-purposes and their juxtaposition highlig…
Why Am I Engaged
Global Capitalism Versus Global Community
Dans cet article, l'A expose son point de vue concernant les effets de la mondialisation capitaliste sur le communautarisme. L'A revient ici sur les liens entre marche et societe, et sur la fracture engendree par les evenements du 11 septembre 2001 sur le developpement durable. L'opposition grandissante a la mondialisation n'est pas sans dangers de derives securitaires, comme l'a montre l'histoire du XXeme siecle, et comme le prouve les discours …
Learning from Doha
The Asian economic implosion
Trade warfare and regional integration in the Pacific
US Secretary of State's celebrated comment that the United States now regards Asia as a more strategic economic partner than Japan. A few months after the APEC summit, however, economic antagonism between the United States and Japan, the two superpowers in the group, reached a new level as Japan refused numerical targets for US and other foreign imports and the US responded by reviving 'Super 301', a provision in the US Trade Act that mandates re…
Perils and Possibilities
Modernization
Benigno Aquino
(1984). Benigno Aquino: Between dictatorship and revolution in the Philippines. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 283-309
The Political Economy of the Philippines
From the ashes
(1986). From the ashes: The rebirth of the Philippine revolution—a review essay. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 258-276
Aquino's elite populism
(1986). Aquino's elite populism: Initial reflections. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 1020-1030
Feature reviews
Perspectives on the Philippines Crisis in the Philippines: The Marcos Era and Beyond. John Bresnan, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1986. 284pp. n/p The Philippines Reader: A History of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Dictatorship and Resistance. Daniel B Schirmer and Stephen Rosskam Shalom, Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press. 1987. 425pp. $11.00hb The Philippines After Marcos. R J May and Francisco Nemenzo, London: Croom Helm…
Confronting the Brave New World Economic Order
Gaining ground
Development
Published in: Foreign Policy, 12/1990, Issue 81
Democratization and Stabilization in the Philippines
The coming to power of Corazon Aquino in the Philippines in 1986 represented the restoration of elite democracy after 14 years of dictatorship. Elite democracy derives its strength from the fact that no matter how cynically the Filipino citizenry might view the electoral process, most Filipinos see no alternative to the ballot as a legitimate means of political succession. Key sectors of the U.S. national security establishment understood this an…
Perils and Possibilities
Trade warfare and regional integration in the Pacific
US Secretary of State's celebrated comment that the United States now regards Asia as a more strategic economic partner than Japan. A few months after the APEC summit, however, economic antagonism between the United States and Japan, the two superpowers in the group, reached a new level as Japan refused numerical targets for US and other foreign imports and the US responded by reviving 'Super 301', a provision in the US Trade Act that mandates re…
Dark Victory
A Siamese tragedy
"Thailand has come to be known as the Fifth Tiger. With the Asian economic collapse of 1997-1998, this book poses the central question: Is this merely a short term crisis or is there a real prospect of Thailand being pushed back into Third World status? The International Monetary Fund has intervened with an irrelevant, indeed damaging policy package that promises to determine the outcome." "A Siamese Tragedy argues that, even before the collapse,…
East Asia
Seven months after the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) moved into the eye of the economic typhoon ravaging the region. The Fund's high profile coincides with the spread of the deflationary and inflationary effects of the financial collapse on the real economy of the region, making the period potentially explosive
Taming the tigers
This article is a contribution to the debate over Asia's economic crisis. In particular it explores the actions and motives of one of the key actors in the Asian crash-the International Monetary Fund. The article demonstrates that the IMF does not have a monopoly of social or economic wisdom (far from it). If the Fund's neoliberal crusaders can be reined in, and alternatives explored, the crisis can offer Asia the chance to forge democratic and s…
The Asian financial crisis
Since mid‐1997 East Asia, which had long been acclaimed as the driving force of the global economy, has been wracked by financial turmoil. The international policy response has been led primarily by the International Monetary Fund with the full support of both the United States government and the European Union. Those who predicted that IMF policy prescriptions would quickly bring the Asian economic crisis under control have seriously underestima…
The insecurity of Asia's financial crisis
The Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) has sunk to the nadir of its 32‐year history. Economies have collapsed throughout the region. Indonesia and Thailand have lost the last shred of their economic sovereignty, being under stabilization programs that are strictly implemented and monitored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Malaysia, long the government most critical of hegemonic powers, is focused inward as it seeks to prevent …
Why the protectorate survives
Within days of each other in late May 1999, two events occurred in Asia that marked the closing of the window of opportunity known as the “Post‐Cold‐War Era:” the Japanese Diet's final passage of new defense guidelines with Washington and the Philippine Senate's approval of a “Visiting Forces Agreement” (VFA) with the United States. The two developments are charged with significance. The new U.S.‐Japan Cooperation Guidelines explicitly commit Jap…
The Asian economic implosion
The iron cage
2000). The iron cage: The world trade organization, the bretton woods institutions, and the South. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 3-32
No Logo
Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy
How to manage the world economy — and, more fundamentally, whether humanity wishes it to go in an ever more market-oriented, transnational corporation-dominated and capital-footloose direction — is the most important international question of our time. In this short and trenchant history of those bodies - the World Bank, IMF, WTO and Group of Seven — which have promoted this economic globalization, Walden Bello • points to their manifest failings
Learning from Doha
Pacific Panopticon
The Filipino analyst and organizer of Focus on the Global South, veteran of the years of Allende and Marcos, discusses the prospects for the World Social Forum after September 11, arguing for the need to link protests against the IMF and WTO to campaigns against US military expansion
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