Walden Bello | Focus on the Global South

The Long March from Bandung to the BRICS

Posted by Walden Bello | Mar 13, 2025 | Alternative Regionalisms, Asia/World, Feature, Peace and Security, Power and Democracy

by Walden Bello, with contributions from Shalmali Guttal The Bandung Conference in April...

The Mess in Argentina

Posted by Walden Bello | Aug 30, 2024 | Asia/World, Opinion/Analysis, Power and Democracy

By Walden Bello** At the heart of Buenos Aires lies the lovely Calle Florida. The experience of...

Geopolitics…Is It Shrinking or Expanding Policy Space?

Posted by Walden Bello | Aug 13, 2024 | Asia/World, Feature, Opinion/Analysis, Power and Democracy

(Paper delivered at Global Conference on “Retrofit for Purpose: Reform of the International...

#WSF2024: Unjust Wars and a Just Peace

Posted by Walden Bello | Feb 23, 2024 | Asia/World, Feature, Peace and Security, Power and Democracy

By Walden Bello* Wars can have many and diverse causes, but it is when local conflicts are...

#WSF2024: The Global Rise of Fascism and How to Fight It

Posted by Walden Bello | Feb 22, 2024 | Asia/World, Feature, Peace and Security, Power and Democracy

(Intervention at the “Building a Movement Mindset” Panel of the World Social Forum,...

[Analysis] Deconstructing a dismaying outcome

Posted by Walden Bello | May 19, 2022 | Opinion/Analysis, Philippines, Power and Democracy

by Walden Bello ‘One would not be surprised if, after a year, the Marcoses and...

An Interview with Walden Bello: China Could Be the Big Winner of the War in Ukraine

Posted by Walden Bello | Apr 25, 2022 | Asia/World, Focus in the News, Power and Democracy

Interview by Ben Wray The Ukraine war is a geopolitical crisis with truly global...

Nation-building: The march of an illusion from the Philippines to Afghanistan

Posted by Walden Bello | Sep 10, 2021 | 1Post Types

originally posted on wsimag.com In one of his interviews before the Taliban walkover, John Bolton,...

How to Lose a War: Focus on the Global South and the American Misadventure in Afghanistan, 2001-2021

Posted by Walden Bello | Aug 18, 2021 | Asia/World, Peace and Security, Power and Democracy

by Walden Bello From the very beginning, in 2001, we in Focus on the Global South opposed the...

The three revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party

Posted by Walden Bello | Jul 6, 2021 | China, Deglobalisation, Opinion/Analysis

The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation.

Osama Bin Laden’s ghost and the multi-trilion-dollar cost of endless war

Posted by Walden Bello | Jul 6, 2021 | Asia/World, Opinion/Analysis, Peace and Security, Power and Democracy

Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation.