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Latin America September 21, 2016
How Middle-Class Chileans Contributed to the Overthrow of Salvador Allende
American intervention was one factor leading to the Chilean coup—but unrest on the part of middle-class Chileans was another.
Walden Bello
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Campaigns and Elections May 20, 2016
People Say the Next Philippine President Is a Lot Like Trump. Here’s Why.
A hapless elite, an angry electorate, and a brash front-runner with little regard for democratic norms: The latest Philippine election sounds a lot like America’s.
Walden Bello
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World October 5, 2015
China’s Stock Market Crash Is the Latest Crisis of Global Capitalism
Alongside rising protests from farmers and workers, China now confronts a middle class anxious about a slowdown in growth and burned by the stock market bust. It’s a volatile brew.
Walden Bello
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Asia September 22, 2015
What the Class Politics of World War II Mean for Tensions in Asia Today
In the Philippines, the grandson of a despised collaborator has endorsed the remilitarization of his country's former occupiers—by the grandson of a war criminal, no less.
Walden Bello
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Inequality March 23, 2015
Why Are Liberal Democracies So Bad at Creating Economic Equality?
The “Third Wave” of democracy in the Global South went hand in hand with the spread of policies that hobbled the fight for greater economic equality from the outset.
Walden Bello
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Armed Conflicts March 17, 2015
The US Military Just Plunged Philippine Politics Into Crisis
American fingerprints are all over a botched commando raid in the southern Philippines that left dozens dead and shocked the country.
Walden Bello and Foreign Policy In Focus
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Activism February 6, 2015
How the Left Failed France’s Muslims
When the left abdicated its outreach to marginalized communities, the Islamists moved in.
Walden Bello and Foreign Policy In Focus
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Feminism October 29, 2014
Fatal Encounter: A Transgender Woman Meets the US Marine Corps
The murder of a transgender woman in the Philippines reveals the homophobia in the Marine Corps and the dangers of US military presence in the region.
Walden Bello and Foreign Policy In Focus
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Economics September 4, 2014
The BRICS: Challengers to the Global Status Quo
Can the BRICS wrest control of the global economy from the United States and Europe, or will their internal contradictions tear them apart?
Walden Bello and Foreign Policy In Focus
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Class May 27, 2014
Class War: Thailand’s Military Coup
Outnumbered by the country’s rural voters, Thailand’s once vibrantly democratic urban middle class has embraced an elitist, antidemocratic agenda.
Walden Bello and Foreign Policy In Focus