Category: Peace and Security
From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century
by Walden Bello (These are the unpublished, uncorrected page proofs of this article that has been...
Read More
[OPINION] Why is the war in Ukraine so intractable? (https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-why-war-ukraine-intractable)
Why is the War in Ukraine So intractable? A Perspective from the Global South
By Walden Bello* An earlier version of this article was published on Rappler at the link...
Read More
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) navigates Tokyo Bay on the way to Yokosuka Naval Base for a scheduled port visit. Yokusuka is the largest overseas U.S. naval installation in the world. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ian Cotter)
The Perils of Semi-Sovereignty: Japan and the Philippines in the Grip of Geopolitical Rivalry
By Walden Bello* (This is a composite version of articles that originally appeared in MEER on...
Read More
South China Sea seen from Manila Bay, the Philippines. Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg for Wikimedia Commons.
STORMY WEATHER AHEAD IN THE ASIA PACIFIC?
Walden Bello’s intervention in the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum Assembly,...
Read More
Event Summary: Online Webinar on the Impact of the War in Ukraine on Women Globally: Voices from the Global South
On September 8, 2022, Focus on the Global South co-organized a webinar on “The Impact of the...
Read More
Bin Laden and Trump: Two Bookends to America’s Imperial Decline
What we can learn from the 20 years between the 9/11 attacks and the January 6 coup attempt. By...
Read More
How to Lose a War: Focus on the Global South and the American Misadventure in Afghanistan, 2001-2021
by Walden Bello From the very beginning, in 2001, we in Focus on the Global South opposed the...
Read More
Osama Bin Laden’s ghost and the multi-trilion-dollar cost of endless war
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.
Read More
Why Biden might not be able to extricate the US from its Middle East quagmire
Biden has promised an end to the endless wars. But such promises are not easy to keep. by Walden...
Read More
Asian Generation Z’s Voice for Peace and Justice
Galileo de Guzman Castillo’s concluding remarks at the International Peace Bureau’s...
Read More
China, US must both stop destabilization
by Walden Bello originally posted on the Inquirer China’s seizure of maritime formations that are...
Read More
KASAMAS FOR LOVE, FOR PEACE. Heiwa koshin desu! (We are the Peace March!). Kiyosu Castle, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. 2019 June 10. Photo by Hideki “Run” Yokoe.
Peace and Courage in the Time of COVID-19
Solidarity Message from the Global South to the 2020 Japan Peace March[i] By Galileo de Guzman...
Read More
![[FS4P] Social movements, Indigenous Peoples, and civil society organizations continue to fight against the corporate capture of global food governance](https://focusweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/xBanner-media-impact-150x150.png.pagespeed.ic.0DeELV32NW.jpg)
