Walden Bello is a human rights and peace campaigner, academic, environmentalist and journalist who has made a major contribution to the international case against corporate-driven globalization. He is currently the Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, as well as an adjunct professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Binghamton. He was formerly a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, and has previously held positions at the University of the Philippines, UCLA, and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. His previous books include Dilemmas of Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire (Zed 2005), and Capitalism's Last Stand? Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity (Zed 2013).
Introduction: Globalization's Debacle - Crisis and Opportunity
Part I: The Destructive Dynamics of Finance Capital
1. Why and How Finance Became Dominant
A Primer on the Wall Street Meltdown - Recovery Recedes, Convulsion Looms
2. The US: Cutting Edge of Crisis
Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood - The Political Consequences of
Stagnation - Lessons of the Obama Debacle
3. Europe's Tragic Spiral
The Celtic Tiger Follows the Asian Tiger to Extinction - Greece: Same
Tragedy, Different Scripts - Germany's Social Democrats and the European
4. Invulnerable Asia?
Chain Gang Economics - China Lassoes its Neighbors - Will China Save the
World from Depression
Part II: Globalization in Crisis
5. Real Economy of the Global Economy
Capital is a Fickle Lover - The Apple Connection - Labor Trafficking:
Modern-Day Slave Trade - Destroying African Agriculture
6. Capitalism and the Environment
Climate and Capitalism in Copenhagen - Can Capitalism Survive Climate
Change? - Breaking the Climate Stalemate - Seven Billion ... and Rising
7. The End of Multilateralism?
The Crisis of Multilateralism - The Dracula Round - U20: Will the Global
Economy Resurface?
Part III: Competing Alternatives
8. Keynesianism in the Breach
Keynes: a Man for this Season? - The Coming Capitalist Consensus
9. Resistance and Transformation
Elites versus Greens in the Global South - Defy the Creditors and Get Away
with it - The Arab Revolutions and the Democratic Imagination - The World
Social Forum at the Crossroads
Conclusion: Deglobalization - An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
