Walden Bello on Ho Chi Minh's inspirational anti-imperialism
Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and statesman
who was prime minister (1946-1955) and president (1945-1969) of the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
Walden Bello is a political activist and Professor of Sociology and
Public Administration at the University of the Philippines in
Manila, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South,
a policy research institute based in Bangkok and for which he was
the Founding Director. He was previously executive director of the
Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) in Oakland,
California and was educated at Princeton University. He has taught
at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2003, Bello was
awarded the Right Livelihood Award, whose website describes him as
"one of the leading critics of the current model of economic
globalization, combining the roles of intellectual and activist."
Bello is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute (based in
Amsterdam), and is a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus. In
March 2008 he was named Outstanding Public Scholar for 2008 by the
International Studies Association. Bello is the author of
Deglobalization: Ideas for a New Global Economy, Dark Victory: The
United States and Global Poverty and Dilemmas of Domination: The
Unmaking of the American Empire.
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