As we rapidly move away
from a unipolar or bipolar world towards multiple centres of economic
and political powers, the WTO - with liberalisation at its core - is at a crossroads, writes Aileen Kwa.
After Doha, the WTO is now in a worse position than
before, with the prospect that it will evolve like the old League of
Nations in the 1930’s: present but powerless, argue Walden Bello and Mary Lou Malig.
The "war on terror" and the "long war" are
losing their potency as shorthand guides to the global conflict. But
the United States remains trapped by a military logic that guarantees
an endless and unwinnable campaign, says Paul Rogers.
The collapsed Doha Round has staved off a further import surge into the developing world - which would have been no less devastating than the trail
of human destruction left behind by a powerful tsunami, argues Devinder Sharma.
Time is fast running out to stop irreversible climate change, a group
of global warming experts warn - and we have only 100 months to avoid
disaster, explains Andrew Simms.
There is no single "right way" to implement Plan B, but the
following list of 12 steps would go a long way towards insuring that we and our
children will have a world worth living in, writes Matthew Stein.
The consequences flowing from
Washington Consensus-inspired reforms have worried US policymakers for some time - leading to a renewed questioning of the role of markets and the state, writes Girish Mishra.