This book examines how the political system of the Phillippines remains dominated by a competitive elite who oppose any significant attempts to address the country\'s huge social inequalities....

Professor Walden Bello looks at the many issues facing the Third World from the effects of globalization and the recolonization perpetrated by the World Trade Organzation (WTO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). 25 essays offer sharp analysis of the current problems in economics, land reform, agriculture, basic human freedoms....

The empire seems unassailable, but the empire is weakand precisely because of its quest for global domination. So argues Walden Bello in this provocative portrait of imperial self-destruction, which systematically dissects the dilemmas confronting America as a result of its drive for supremacy....