Afsar Jafri* The recent escalation in food prices is the latest calamity to hit the poor and marginalised communities in India. The price of food and other essentials has been rising for the last 12 weeks and the current...
Read Moreby Shalmali Guttal In a press conference in Timor Leste’s capital city Dili on May 14, top UN officials declared that the country is not at a risk of starvation from the global food crisis. According to the World...
Read MoreASEAN ACTIONS MUST REFLECT URGENCY OF SITUATION IN BURMA CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION TO ENSURE CYCLONE NARGIS SURVIVORS GET AID SAPA STATEMENT: SOLIDARITY FOR ASIAN PEOPLE'S ADVOCACIES (SAPA) WORKING GROUP ON THE ASEAN ...
Read MoreHow “free trade” is destroying Third World agriculture-and who’s fighting back (This article appears in the June 2, 2008, edition of The Nation [New York]. It is being reprinted with permission from The...
Read MoreWalden Bello interviewed for Japonesia Review by OGURA TOSHIMARU “In their rhetoric they basically say they are out to have better relations between the north and the south. They want to save Africa, they want to deal with...
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In the Shadow of Debt:The Sad but True Tale behind a Quarter Century of Stagnation in the Philippines By Walden Bello* Assaulted on all sides owing to its entanglement in the ZTE-NBN corruption scandal, the administration has...
Read MoreJayati Ghosh* It is now clear that the prolonged party for international finance capital is over, at least for now. The US financial structure is crumbling, possibly even collapsing. The collapse of the major Wall Street...
Read MoreC. P. Chandrasekhar* To the superstitious, recent developments in global financial markets were possible reminders that the Ides of March had arrived. To the more rational, they proved once again that finance capital,...
Read MoreJayati Ghosh* There is no doubt about it: the US financial structure is crumbling, possibly even collapsing. The collapse of a major Wall Street bank and the enormous bailouts that are being offered to financial...
Read MoreWalden Bello* Walden Bello was invited to participate in the Economist’s Debate Series on “Freedom and its Digital Discontents.” The proposition of the debate was “By intervening to regulate...
Read MoreDaphne Wysham and Shakuntala Makhijani* (First published by Foreign Policy in Focus, March 31, 2008) The World Bank’s long-running identity crisis is proving hard to shake. When efforts to rebrand itself as a...
Read MoreDorothy-Grace Guerrero* “In 20 years China has achieved economic results that took a century to attain in the west. But we have also concentrated a century’s worth of environmental issues in those 20...
Read MoreNicola Bullard* and Bea Moraras After the high drama of Bali, the Bangkok climate change conference (31 March – 4 April) was a dull affair. Al Gore did not descend from the heights, no daring delegate told...
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By Walden Bello*
(Excerpts from acceptance speech at the Outstanding Public Scholar Award Panel, International Studies Association, 49th Annual Convention, San Francisco, California, March 27, 2008. Bello was the second recipient of the award, the first being Dr. Susan George in 2007. Members of the panel honoring Bello were George; Dr. Richard Falk, professor emeritus at Princeton University; Dr. Robin Broad, professor at American University, and Dr.Barry Gills, professor at the University of Newcastle.)
I would like, first of all, to say that I am very grateful to the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association for this award. I am very, very honored by the generous comments of Barry [Gills], Robin [Broad], Richard [Falk] and Susan [George]. And it really is an honor to be in the company of Susan, the first person to be given this award. Let me just say that, especially in comparison to Susan, I am not really sure that I am the best person to be named ISA’s Outstanding Public Scholar for 2008, though I think I would consider myself a public intellectual or, as the French say, intellectuel engage-that is, one who marries analysis to action, or at least tries to.
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