Politics / Globalization

Vanessa Baird concludes with 14 ways – at least – towards a better global trade.

How the Global South is affected by the current trade turmoil – and old patterns of power.

In talks about trade, something vital is omitted: the environment.

China is making promises, but keeping them may be hard...

The beast that won’t lie down and die – the ISDS ‘investor protection’ racket is still with us, in all but name.

The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it, asks Vanessa Baird in the first of an eight-article exploration?

Piracy is just one in a long list of problems facing seafarers in a cut-throat shipping industry, reports Olivia Swift.

Pirate hijackings off the coast of Africa have spawned a lucrative protection industry. With private security guards taking to the oceans in ever increasing numbers, Hazel Healy asks whether this is really the way to ‘safer seas’.

The standard response to the current financial crisis has been to punish the presumed debtors. Are the creditors blameless, then? asks Dinyar Godrej.

Vanessa Baird on why, when it comes to human numbers, nothing sells like fear.

The Great Recession may have stunned the Minority World, but the Majority World has survived more or less unscathed. David Ransom investigates why, and traces the outlines of a future that might just be worth having.

As the empire of international finance collapses, David Ransom finds the chance to reset the compass towards democracy, equality and the survival of our planet.