Walden Bello is the founding Director of Focus on the Global South, a policy research institute based in Bangkok, Thailand. His many books include A Siamese Tragedy (with Cunningham & Li Kheng Poh, Zed Books, 1999) and Global Finance (with Bullard & Malhotra, Zed Books 2000).

Foreword to the New Edition: The Crisis of the Globalist Project and the New Economics of George W. Bush * The Crisis of the Globalist Project * Three Moments of the Crisis of Globalization * The New Economics of George W. Bush * The Economics and Politics of Over-extension * Part I: Introduction: The Multiple Crises of Global Capitalism * From Triumph to Crisis * Multilateralism in Disarray * The Crisis of the Neoliberal Order * The Corporation under Question * Cracks in Military Hegemony * Degeneration of Liberal Democracy * The Spectre of Deflation * Rise of the Movement * September 11's Contradictory Legacy * 'Imperial Overstretch' * Liberal Democracy Loses * The Future * Part II:. Marginalizing the South in the International System * The Rise of UNCTAD * The Bretton Woods Twins versus the UN Development System * The Southern Challenge in the 1970s * Rightwing Reaction and the Demonization of the South * Resubordinating the South I: Structural Adjustment * Resubordinating the South II: Taming the Tigers * Resubordinating the South III: Dismantling the UN Development System * The World Trade Organization: Third Pillar of the System * The Group of 7: An International Directorate? * Part III:. Sidestepping Democracy at the Multilateral Agencies * World Bank * International Monetary Fund * World Trade Organization * Part IV: Crisis of Legitimacy * The IMF's Stalingrad * The Past Catches up * Meltzer and the World Bank * The WTO and the Road to Seattle * Part V: The Vicissitudes of Reform, 1998-2002 * Reforming the Global Financial Architecture * From Structural Adjustment to Poverty Reduction? * Non-democratic Decision-making Affirmed * Decision-making at the WTO: From Seattle to Doha * Part VI: Proposals for Reform of Global Governance: A Critical Analysis * An Economic Security Council? * The Meltzer Commission Proposal * The 'Back to Bretton Woods System' School * George Soros's Alternative System * Part VII: The Alternative: Deglobalization * Deconstruction * Deglobalizing in a Pluralist World * References * Annex: Guide to Further Information * Index