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Meghnad Desai

Meghnad Desai is professor of economics, and director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics. He is a Labour party peer in Britain’s upper house of parliament. His latest book is Marx’s Revenge (Verso, 2004)

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The roots of terror: Islam or Islamism?

The focus of analysis and policy in relation to terrorism needs to shift from religion to politics, argues Meghnad Desai.

Social Democracy as world panacea? A comment on David Held

The development of the world economy has rendered David Held’s top-down vision of global social democracy obsolete, says Meghnad Desai.