In this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's multiple crises. Trenchant but constructive, Bello's analysis of the collapse of the global real economy - covering such issues as the Wall Street meltdown, the disintegration of...

1. A Brave New Middle East: The Birth of a New Era. - 2. The Anti-Development State: Economic Origins of Arab Upheavals. - 3. The Advent of Economic Globalization: A Prelude to Crisis. - 4. The Great Recession: Collapse of the Arab Crony Capitalism. - 5. The New Powerbrokers: Political Islam and...