Walden Bello: Reconsidering Copenhagen and International Development

Dr. Walden Bello may be the foremost public intellectual on Asian economics. The Economist magazine has credited Bello with creating the word "deglobalization", a concept that has put him in the front of a global movement to reconsider our identity as citizen, not as consumer. Bello opens by illuminating the backroom shenanigans at the COP 15 conference in Copenhagen. Bello "credits" the US, Canada and China as the main players in making last year's Copenhagen climate conference a failure. Bello particularly focuses on the narrative of China, which sees itself as a developing country, yet is now the second largest economy in the world. Bello concludes with an examination of what should be done to get out of this massive mess. (recorded in March @ the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs).