Walden Bello

Walden Bello, a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus, is the author or co-author of 26 books, the latest of which are Global Battlefields: Memoir of a Legendary Public Intellectual from the Global South (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2025), Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash (United Kingdom: Bloomsbury, 2019), and Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right (Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2019).

The Existential Crisis of Mainstream Economics

Trump, the Dying Multinational Order and the Global South

Zhou En Lai: Mao’s Man or His Own?

Imagining the End of Capitalism

Outscooped By Trump: The Strike on Nigeria’s Real Target Was Venezuela

The Dark Side of Trump’s Moon

China Teaches Japan’s New Leader a Lesson

Have We Entered a New Feudal Era?

Trump and His Asian Vassals

France in Crisis: an Interview with Jean Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise

De-Globalization: Towards the Left or the Right?

Germany’s Die Linke: “We Rose Like a Phoenix From the Ashes”

Is Another Europe Possible?

The German Question and Europe’s Future

AI, Techno-Determinism and Techno-Pessimism

The End of Multilaterlism

Tokugawa Amerika

The IMF and World Bank Await Elon Musk

Required Reading: Hillbilly Elegy

How Will Mexico’s New President Deal With Trump, Migration and Drug Cartels?

Trump: Isolationist by Instinct, Unpredictable in Action

How Did I “Predict” That Trump, Despite His Repulsive Personality and Politics, Would Prevail?

The Mess in Argentina

How Should the Global South Look at the US Elections?

Crisis in the West, Opportunity for the Rest?

Fascism at the Gates

Wanted: a Mass Uprising Against the Neoliberal Matrix

Memoir of a Murder in the Philippines

Unjust Wars and a Just Peace

Palestine Lights the Way Forward

Fascism 101 for Today’s Geopolitics

And Here’s to You, Henry Kissinger…

From Bin Laden to Gaza

Imagine You Are a Young Palestinian

Marxism for Generation Z: Is Barbie Out to Change the World or Just Her Own Life?

A Mini-Revolution in Tokyo

Imagination and Liberation

Time to Seek Justice–Not Hand Out the Nobel Prize–for Economic Crimes

A Bold, Just and Effective Program to Address the Developing Country Debt Crisis

Ideas–Even the Most Foolish Ones–Have Consequences

Will China Replace the US… or Will the Two Powers Stalemate?

Extreme Events are the New Normal…and Not Just in the Weather

Gorbachev Rode the Tiger and Ended Up Inside It

The Global South in the WTO: Time to Go on the Offensive

Why the Son of a Dictator Won the Philippine Presidential Election

Bin Laden and Trump: Two Bookends for America’s Imperial Decline

Zionism’s Bête Noire: How Richard Falk Became an Intellectual Pariah

The Debacle of “Nation Building” in Afghanistan and Iraq

The Only Hero of the Duterte Era? An Interview With Philippine Senator Leila de Lima

The Three Revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party