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CURRICULUM VITAE

WILLIAM I. ROBINSON

Department of Sociology

University of California-Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93016

(805) 893-5607

e-mail: wirobins@soc.ucsb.edu

Education

Ph.D. Sociology. University of New Mexico. 1994

M.A. Latin American Studies. University of New Mexico. 1992

B.A. Journalism (major) and International Studies (minor). Friends World College,

Huntington, N.Y. 1981. Included four years of study in Kenya, Nigeria and Costa Rica.

University of Ibadan, Nigeria. (visiting student). Courses in African Studies, political

economy, international relations, and journalism. 1979

University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1977-1978 (visiting student). Courses in African studies,

politics, economics and journalism. 1977-1978

Current Positions

2001 - present Assistant to Full Professor, Department of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American and

Iberian Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Prior Academic Positions

1998-2001 Assistant Professor of Sociology, New Mexico State University

1996 - 1998 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

1994 - 1996 Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

1994-2001 Faculty, Masters Program in International Relations Program, Central American University

(Managua)

Publications

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Books

In Press The Political Economy of Global Police State. Pluto Press

2018 Inter the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism, Chicago: Haymarket Books.

2017 We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics (edited with Maryam

Griffin), London and Oakland: Pluto Press and AK Press.

Arab language edition in press as of January 2018, Al Kotob Publishing House, Cairo.

2014 Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.

Chinese edition, Chongqing Publishing House Co., Ltd (Beijing), scheduled for release in 2019

Spanish edition, Siglo XXI (Mexico City), scheduled for release in 2019.

2008 Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Globalization Perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins

University Press.

2016: updated Spanish edition, America Latina y el Capitalismo Global, Siglo XXI, Mexico City.

2005 Critical Globalization Studies (edited, with Richard Appelbuam). New York/London: Routledge.

2004 A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class and State in a Transnational World. Baltimore:

Johns Hopkins University Press.

Spanish edition published in 2007, Una Teoria del Capitalismo Global: Produccion, Clase, y

Estado en un Mundo Transnacional. Bogota: Desde Abajo.

Chinese edition publihsed in 2009 by Social Science Academy Press.

Czech edition published in 2012 with a new Preface. Prague: Center for Global Studies, Czech

Academy of Sciences.

Second updated Spanish edition, with a new preface, published in 2014 by Siglo XXI, Mexico

City.

2003 Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change and Globalization. London: Verso.

Spanish edition published in 2011 with a new introduction, Conflictos Transnacionales:

Centroamerica, Cambio Social, y Globalizacion. San Salvador: Ediciones UCA/Central American

University Press.

1996 Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, U.S. Intervention, and Hegemony. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Serbian edition, published in 2012 with a new Introduction. Belgrade: Filip Vichnich Publishing

House, in conjunction with the University of Belgrade.

1992 A Faustian Bargain: U.S. Intervention in the Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign Policy

In the Post Cold War Era. Boulder: Westview Press.

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1987 David and Goliath: The U.S. War Against Nicaragua. New York: Monthly Review Press, with

Kent Norsworthy (also published by Zed Press, London).

Articles in Academic Journals

In Press “Passive Revolution and the Movement against Mass Incarceration: From Prison Abolition to

Redemption Script,” Social Justice.

2019 “Desigualdad Salvaje Global: El Precariado y la Humanidad Superflua,” Anthropos, No. 250

2019 “La Segunda Implosión de Centroamérica,” Tensoes Mundiais, 15(28), 33-44.

2019 “Savage Inequalities: Capitalist Crisis and Surplus Humanity,” International Critical Thought.

2019 “Capital has an Internationale, and it is Going Fascist,” Globalizations and Journal of World-

Systems Research

2019 “Israel, Palestine, and Latin America: The Contemporary Moment,” by invitation, Latin American

Perspectives,

2019 “Global Capitalist Crisis and Twenty-First Century Fascism: Beyond the Trump Hype,” Science

and Society, 83(2):481-509.

2018 “The Next Economic Crisis: Digital Capitalism and Global Police State,” Race and Class,

60(1):77-92.

2018 “Accumulation Crisis and Global Police State,” Critical Sociology, 2018:1-14.

2017 “Debate on the New Global Capitalism: Transnational Capitalist Class, Transnational State

Apparatuses, and Global Crisis,” International Critical Thought, 7(2):171-189. Translated into

Chinese and published in Foreign Theoretical Trends (no. 8, 2018).

2017 “Marx After Post-Narratives: A Critical Reading of Ronaldo Munck’s Critical Reading of Marx,”

Global Discourse, 7(4):602-608.

2017 “Global Capitalism and the Restructuring of Education: The Transnational Capitalist Class’ Quest

to Suppress Critical Thinking,” Social Justice, 43(3).

2016 “L’heure d’un Changement de Paradigm: La Monee de Capital Transnational et le Debat sur la

Classe Dominate Mondialisee” [“Time for a Paradigm Shift?: The Rise of Transnational Capital

and Debate on the Global Ruling Class”], Actuel Marx, No. 60: 43-61.

2016 “Globalization and Race in World Capitalism” Journal of World-Systems Research, 22(1):3-8.

2015 “Clarity, Theoretical, Conceptual and Normative Commitment in the Critique of Global

Capitalism,” Deliberation, Knowledge Ethnics (Erwagen, Wissen, Ethik[EWE])

2015 “The Transnational State and the BRICS: A Global Capitalism Perspective,” Third World

Quarterly, 36(1).

2014 “Global Capitalism, Immigrant Labor, and the Struggle for Justice,” Class, Race, and Corporate

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Power, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Article 1, Fall 2014.

2014 “Os BRICS no Capitalismo Transnacional,” Tensoes Mund, 10(18-19):491-503.

2014 “The Fetishism of Empire: A Critical Review of Panitch and Gindin’s The Making of Global

Capitalism,” Studies in Political Economy, 93, spring:147-165.

2013 “Policing the Global Crisis,” Journal of World-Systems Research, 19(2):193-197.

2013 “Global Capitalism and its Anti-‘Human Face’: Organic Intellectuals and Interpretations of the

Crisis,” Globalizations, 10(5), pp. 715-727.

2013 “Promoting Polyarchy: Twenty Years Later,” International Relations

2012 “’The Great Recession’ of 2008 and the Continuing Crisis: A Global Capitalism Perspective,”

The International Review of Modern Sociology, 38 (2):169-198

2012 “Global Capitalism and the Emergence of Transnational Elites” Critical Sociology, 38(3):349-364

2012 “Capitalist Globalization as World Historic Context: A Response”, Critical Sociology, 38(3):405-

416.

2012 “Global Capitalism and Twenty-First Century Fascism: A U.S. Case Study”, Race and Class, Lead

author, co-authored with Mario Barrera. 53(3):4-29.

2011 “Global Capital Leviathan,” Radical Philosophy, No 165:2-6.

2011 “Globalization and the Sociology of Immanuel Wallerstein: A Critical Appraisal,” International

Sociology, 26(6): 723-745.

2010 “Reputations: Giovanni Arrighi: Systemic Cycles of Accumulation and Hegemonic Transitions,

and the Rise of China,” New Political Economy.

2009 “Global Capitalism, Social Science, and Methods of Critique: Response to Cammack’s ‘Forget

the Transnational State’,” Geopolitics, History and International Relations, 1(2).98-108.

2009 “Saskia Sassen and the Sociology of Globalization: A Critical Appraisal,” Sociological Analysis,

Vol. 3, No. 1: 5-29.

2009 “Globalizacion, Crisis, y Escenarios de Futuro,” Estudios Centroamericanos, 63(715-716):331-

344.

2007 “Jess Diaz and Javier Rodriguez: Undocumented in America,” Interview Essay, New Left Review,

47, Sept-Oct: 93-106.

2007 “The Pitfall of Realist Analysis of Global Capitalism: A Critique of Ellen Meiksins Wood’s

Empire of Capital,” Historical Materialism, 15:71-93.

2007 “Beyond the Theory of Imperialism: Global Capitalism and the Transnational State,” Societies

Without Borders, 2:5-26.

2006 “Reification and Theoreticism in the Study of Globalization, Imperialism, and Hegemony: A

Comment on Kiely, Pozo, and Valladao,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs. 19(3)

2006 “Aqui Estamos y no Nos Vamos!: Global Capitalist and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights,” Race

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and Class. 48(2).

2005 “Gramsci and Globalization: From Nation-State to Transnational Hegemony,” Critical Review of

International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 8, No. 4:1-16.

2005 “Global Capitalism: The New Transnationalism and the Folly of Conventional Thinking,” Science

and Society, vol. 69, no. 3.

2004 “What to Expect from U.S. ‘Democracy Promotion’ in Iraq,” New Political Science, Vol. 26, No.

3, September:441-447.

2004 “Studying Race-Gender Inequality in the 21st Century: A Critical Review of Evelyn Nakano

Glenn’s Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor,”

review/exchange symposium, Ethnicities, scheduled for Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2004.

2004 “Global Crisis and Latin America,” Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 23, No. 2,

2004:135-153

2003 “The Debate on Globalization,” review article, Science and Society. Vol. 67, No. 3:

353-360.

2003 “Capitalismo Global y Hegemonia Transnacional: Apuntes Teoricos y Evidencias Empiricas,”

Cuardernos de Nuestra America, published in two parts. Part I: Vol. 16, No. 31, Jan.–June 2003:

9-48. Part II: Vol. 16, No. 32, Aug.-Dec. 2003:97-109. Revised, updated, and expanded Spanish-

language version of “Global Capitalism and Transnational Hegemony,” published in Turkish in

Praxis, Vol. 8, 2003.

2003 Turkish language translation of “Global Capitalism and Transnational Hegemony: Theoretical

Notes and Empirical Evidence,” Praksis, Vol. 8.

2002 “Remapping Development in Light of Globalization: From a Territorial to a Social Cartography,”

Third World Quarterly. Vol. 23, No. 6:1047-1071.

2002 “Globalization as a Macro-structural-historical Framework of Analysis: The Case of Central

America,” New Political Economy, scheduled for Vol. 7, No. 2, July 2002:221-249.

2002 “Global Capitalism and Nation-State Centric Thinking: What We Don't See When We Do See

Nation-States. Response to Arrighi, Mann, Moore, van der Pijl, and Went,” Science and Society,

Vol. 65, No. 4 (Winter 2001-2002):500-508.

2001 “Transnational Processes, Development Studies, and Changing Social Hierarchies in the World

System: A Central American Case Study,” Third World Quarterly, scheduled for Vol. 22, No.

4:529-563.

2001: “Social Theory and Globalization: The Rise of a Transnational State,” Theory and Society Vol.

30, No. 2:157-200, published together with “Response to MacMichael, Block, and

Goldfrank”:223-236.

Translated to French and published in 2015 in Periode, at http://revueperiode.net/theorie-sociale-

et-mondialisation-lavenement-de-letat-transnational/

2000 “Neo-Liberalism, the Global Elite, and the Guatemalan Transition: A Critical Macrosocial

Analysis,” Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs (vo. 42, No. 4:89-107).

2000 “Toward a Global Ruling Class?: Globalization and the Transnational Capitalist Class,” Science

and Society, Vol. 64, No. 1, Spring:11-54.

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1999 “Latin America in the Age of Inequality: Confronting the New ‘Utopia’,” International Studies

Review, Vol 1, Issue 3, Fall 1999:41-67.

1999 "The Fin de Siecle Debate: Globalization as Epochal Shift", co-authored with Roger Burbach,

Science and Society, Spring 1999, 63, No. 1:10-39.41-67.

1998/99 “Latin America and Global Capitalism,” Race and Class 40 (No. 2/3):111-131.

1998 "Beyond Nation-State Paradigms: Globalization, Sociology, and the Challenge of Transnational

Studies," Sociological Forum 13 (No. 4):561-594..

1998 "(Mal)development in Central America: Globalization and Social Change," Development and

Change 29:467-497.

1997 "Global Capitalism and the Oromo Liberation Struggle: Theoretical Notes on U.S. Policy Towards

the Ethiopian Empire," Journal of Oromo Studies 4 (No. 1, 2):1-46

1997 "A Case Study of Globalization Processes in the Third World: A Transnational Agenda in

Nicaragua," Global Society 11 (No 1):61-91.

1996 "Globalization, the world system, and 'democracy promotion' in U.S. foreign policy," Theory and

Society 25 (No. 5):615-665.

1996 "Globalisation: Nine Theses of Our Epoch, Race and Class, 38 (No. 2):13-31.

1996 "Transnational Politics and Global Social Order: A Reassessment of the Chilean Transition in

Light of U.S. Intervention," Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 24 (No. 2):1-30.

1995 "Pushing Polyarchy: The U.S.-Cuba Case and the Third World," Third World Quarterly: Journal

of Emerging Areas 16 (No. 4):631-647.

1993 "The Global Economy and the Latino Populations In The United States: A World System

Approach," Critical Sociology 19 (No. 2):29-60.

1988 "A Critique of the Antidemocratic Tendency Argument: The Case of Mass Organizations and

Popular Participation in Nicaragua" (with Kent Norsworthy), Latin American Perspectives 15 (No.

1):134-141.

1985 "Elections and U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua" (with Kent Norsworthy), Latin American

Perspectives 12 (No. 2):83-110.

Chapters in Books

In Press “Latin America’s Pink Tide: The Straightjacket of Global Capitalism,” in Steven Ellner (ed), The

Pink Tide Experiences: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings in Twenty-First Century Latin America,

Rowman and Littlefield, scheduled for fall 2019.

In Press “Globalization and the Transformation of Latin America’s Political Economy,” Ino Rossi (ed),

Frontiers of Globalization Research, (New York: Springer), scheduled for summer 2019.

In Press “La Crisis del Capitalismo Global, Trumpismo, y el Fascismo del Siglo XXI,” in Estados Unido

Contra el Mundo: Trump y la Nueva Geopolítica,” Casandra Castorena, Marco A. Gandásegui,

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and Leandro Morgenfeld (eds) (Mexico City: Siglo XXI).

2018 “The Transnational Capitalist Class,” with Jeb Sprague, in Mark Juergensmeyer, Saskia Sassen,

and Manfred Steger, eds. Oxford Handbook of Global Studies (New York: Oxford University

Press).

2018 “Who Rules the World,” in Peter Phillips, Giants: The Global Power Elite (New York: Seven

Stories Press).

2018 “Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century: Global Inequality, Piketty, and the Transnational

Capitalist Class,” in Lauren Langman and David A. Smith (eds), Piketty, Inequality and 21st

Century Capitalism (Boston: Brill).

2015 “Global Capitalism, the BRICS, and the Transnational State,” in Jeb Sprague (ed). New York:

Routledge, 2015.

2014 “Transnational Processes, Development Studies, and Changing Social Hierarchies in the World

System: A Central American Case Study,” Reprint from article in Third World Quarterly (22.4,

2001), in Social Structural of Accumulation Theory, Terrence McDonough, David M. Kotz,

Michael Reich (eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

2014 “Global Capitalism Theory and the Emergence of Transnational Elites,” reprint of article from

Critical Sociology, in Social Structural of Accumulation Theory, Terrence McDonough, David M.

Kotz, Michael Reich (eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

2014 “The Great Recession of 2008 and the Continuing Global Capitalist Crisis,” in The Global

Capitalist Crisis and Its Aftermath, Berch Berberoglu (ed.), Farnham: Ashgate.

2014 “Global Crisis, Global Police State,” in Christian Suter and Christopher Chase-Dunn (eds.),

Structures of the World Political Economy and the Future Global Conflict and Cooperation

(World Society Studies, Vol. 2014), Berlin, London, and Zurich: Münster/Wien Lit., pp. 271-283.

2014 “Foreword: The Global Significance of Latin America’s New Radical Left,” in Steven Ellner (ed),

Latin America’s Radical Left, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. (Spanish edition published 2018,

La Izquierda Latinoamericana en el Poder: Cambios y Enfrentamientos en el Siglo XXI,

Fundación Celarg)

2013 “Global Rebellion: The Coming Chaos?”, in Rebecca Fisher, ed., Managing Democracy Managing

Dissent: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Organization of Consent. London: Corporate

Watch/Freedom Press.

2013 “Democracia y Soberania Frente a la Crisis del Capitalismo Global: Desafios para la Revolucion

Bolivariana,” in Democracias Nuevas o Restauradas: El Caso Venezolano, Jorge Valero (ed),

Caracas: Fundacion Editorial El Perro y la Rana, pp. 57-68.

2013 “Global Class Formation and the Rise of Transnational Classes,” and “The Contradictions of

Global Capitalism and the Future of Global Society,” extracts from A Theory of Global Capitalism

published as chapters in Keri E. Iyall (ed.), Sociology of Globalization: Culture, Economics, and

Politics, Boulder: Westview Press, 2013.

2012 “The Chimera of Democracy,” reprint of article in “Society in Question, Seventh Edition, Robert

Brym, editor. Nelson Education Limited.

2011 “Globalization: Nine Theses of Our Epoch,” reprint of article in The Globalization Reader, 4th

edition, edited by Frank J. Lechner and John Boli. Blackwell, Oxford and Malden.

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2011 “Globalization, Trade, and Development: From Territorial to Social Cartographies, From Nation-

State/Inter-State to Transnational Explanations,” in Globalization and Beyond: New Examinations

of Global Power and its Alternatives,”Maria P. Fernandez-Kelly and Jon Shefner (eds), Penn State

University Press.

2011 “Social Theory and Globalization: The Rise of a Transnational State,” in George Ritzer (ed),

Readings in Globalization. London/New York: Blackwell (reprint from article published in

Theory and Society, 2001).

2011 “The Fantasy of Democracy and Development,” in Robert J. Brym (ed), Society in Question:

Sociological Readings for the 21st Century, 6th Edition. Scarborough, Canada: Nelson Education

Ltd., reprint of “The Chimera of Democracy and Development,” Contexts, 7(1):74-77, 2008.

2010 “The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Cyclical, Structural, or Systemic?,” in Martinj Konings, ed.,

Beyond the Subprime Headlines: Critical Perspectives on the Financial Crisis, London: Verso.

2010 “Beyond the Theory of Imperialism: Global Capitalism and the Transnational State” (revised and

expanded version of article appearing in 2007 in journal Societies Without Borders,” in Alexander

Anievas, ed., Marxism and World Politics, London/New York: Routledge.

2008 “Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights,” in

Francsico Vazquez and Rodolfo D. Torres, Latino/a Though: Culture, Politics, and Society (2nd

Edition), Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.

2008 “Globalization and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the United States,” in Globalization: The

Transformation of the Social World (2nd Edition), Eitzen and Baca Zinn (eds.), Belmont:

Wadsworth.

2007 “Globalization, Imperialism, and Resistance,” in Lars Lindstrom, Mats Warn, and Bjorn Beckman

(eds), Globalization, Imperialism, and Resistance. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press.

2007 “A Global Perspective on Social Activism and Democracy in South Africa,” in Lars Lindstrom,

Mats Warn, and Bjorn Beckman (eds), Globalization, Imperialism, and Resistance. Stockholm:

Stockholm University Press.

2007 “Para Estudos Criticos Sobre a Globalizacao: Intelectuais Organicos e a Luta por Justica Global<

in Marco Aurelio Machado de Oliveira, Sobre Humanidades. Campo Grande: Editora UMFS

2007 “Transformative Possibilities in Latin America,” Socialist Review, London: Merlin Press.

2007 “Promoting Polyarchy in Latin America: The Oxymoron of ‘Market Democracy’,”, in Eric

Hershberg and Fred Rosen, eds., Turning the Tide? Latin America After Neoliberalism. New

York: The New Press, 2006.

2007 “Theories of Globalization,” in George Ritzer (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Globalization.

London: Blackwell.

2006 “Gramsci and Globalization: From Nation-State to Transnational Hegemony,” in Morton and

Beiler (eds), London/New York: Routledge, Reprint of article published in Critical Review of

International Social and Political Philosophy.

2006 “Critical Globalization Studies,” in Judith Blau and Kery Iyail Smith (eds.), The Public

Sociologies Reader. Landham, MD: Rowman and Littlefeld

2005 “What to Expect from U.S. ‘Democracy Promotion’ in Iraq,” in Joseph G. Pescheck (ed.), The

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Politics of Empire: War, Terror, and Hegemony. London/New York: Routledge. Reprint of

article published in New Political Science.

2005 “Social Activism and Democracy in South Africa: A Globalization Perspective,” in Richard

Callard and Paul Graham (eds.), Democracy in the Times of Mbeki, Cape Town: IDASA.

2005 “Capitalist Globalization and the Transnationalization of the State,” in Richard Little and Michael

Smith (eds.), Perspectives in World Politics, 3rd Edition. London/New York: Routledge. Reprint

of chapter in Rupert and Smith (eds.), Historical Materialism and Globalisation, 2002.

2005 “Kuresel Kapitalizm ve Ulusasiri Kapitalist Hegemonya: Kurumsal Notlar ve Gorgul Deliller,” in

Cem Karadeli (ed.), Kuresellesme ve Alternatif Kuresellesme, Ankara: Pheonix. Reprint of article

published in Praxis, Vol. 8, 2003.

2005 “Introduction: Towards a Critical Globalization Studies: Continued Debates, New Directions,

Neglected Topics,” co-authored with Richard Appelbaum, in Appelbaum and Robinson, Critical

Globalization Studies, New York/London: Routledge.

2005 “What is a Critical Globalization Studies?,” in Appelbaum and Robinson, Critical Globalization

Studies, New York/London: Routledge.

2004 “The Crisis of Global Capitalism: How it Looks From Latin America,” in Freeman and

Kagarlitsky (eds.), The Politics of Empire: The Crisis of Globalisation, London: Pluto Press.

2004 “America Latina en el Proceso de la Globalizacion,” in Daniel Dessein and Esteban Pino Coviello

(eds.), Siete Desafios del Siglo XXII, Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana.

2004 “"Global Capitalism and the Oromo Liberation Struggle: Theoretical Notes on U.S. Policy

Towards the Ethiopian Empire," reprint of article appearing in Journal of Oromo Studies 4 (No. 1,

2):1-46, in Asafa Jalata (ed.), State Crisis, Globalisation and National Movements in North-East

Africa, Routledge.

2004 “From State Hegemonies to Transnational Hegemony: A Global Capitalism Approach,” in

Thomas Ehrlich Reifer (ed.), Globalization, Hegemony and Power: Antisystemic Movements and

the Global System. Paradigm Press..

2004 “Latin America in the Empire of Global Capital,” in Gilberto Gonzales et. al. (eds.), Labor Versus

Imperialism: Race, Gender, and Migration, New York:Routledge.

2004 “Latin America in the Age of Inequality: Confronting the New ‘Utopia’,” reprint of article

appearing in International Studies Review, Vol 1, Issue 3, Fall 1999:41-67, in Takashi Inoguchi

(ed.), Gendai Kokusai Seijigaku Riron (Readings in International Relations Theories), Tokyo:

Toyo Shorin Publisher.

2003 “Beyond Nation-State Paradigms: Globalization, Sociology, and the Challenge of Transnational

Studies,” reprint of article appearing in Sociological Forum 13, 1998 (No. 4):561-594, in Roland

Robertson and Kathleen White (eds.), Globalization: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Vol. 2: The

Nation-State and International Relations, London: Routledge, pp. 189-221.

2003 The Transnational Capitalist Class and the Transnational State,” in Wilma A. Dunaway (ed.), in

Emerging Issues in the 21st Century World System, Vol. II: New Theoretical Directions for the

21st Century World-System. Westport: Praeger.

2002 “Capitalist Globalization and the Transnationalization of the the State,” in Rupert and Smith (eds),

Historical Materialism and Globalization. London: Routledge.

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2002 "Latin America in an Age of Inequality: Confronting the New 'Utopia," in Craig Murphy (ed.),

Inequality in an Age of Globalization: Securing a Liberal World Order. New York: MacMillan

(expanded version of article published in 1999 in International Studies Review).

2001 “Neo-Liberalism, the Global Elite, and the Guatemalan Transition: A Critical Macrosocial

Analysis,” in Chase-Dunn, Jonas, and Amaro (eds.), Globalization on the Ground: Post-Bellum

Guatemalan Democracy and Development. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. (modified

version of article appearing in Journal of Inter-American and World Affairs, Winter 2000).

2001 “”The Epochal Shift” and “Epochal Clashes: Third Worldization and the New Hegemon,” co-

authored with Roger Burbach, in Burbach, Globalization and Postmodern Politics: From

Zapatistas to High Tech Robber Barons. London: Pluto.

2000 “Promoting Capitalist Polyarchy: The Case of Latin America,” in Inoguchi, Ikenberry, and Cox

(eds.), American Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts. New York: Oxford

University Press.

1997 "Nicaragua and the World," in Thomas W. Walker (ed), Nicaragua Without Illusions: Regime

Transition and Other Change in the 1990s. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources.

1997 Transnational Social Control in the Age of Globalization: The U.S. and Regime Transition in

Chile," in David Skidmore (ed), Contested Social Orders and International Politics. Nashville:

Vanderbilt University Press

1995 "El rol de la democracia en la politica exterior norteamericana y el caso de Cuba," in Haroldo

Dilla (ed.) La democracia en Cuba y el diferendo con los Estados Unidos. Habana: Ediciones

CEA.

Other Analytical and Scholarly Essays (non-refereed)

(The following is a partial listing)

2019 “Immigrant Workers: Front-Line Fighters Against the New Global Capitalism,” Socialist Forum,

Fall 2019, https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/fall-2019/immigrant-workers-front-line-

fighters-against-the-new-global-capitalism/

2019 Review essay/symposium, Michael Hanchard’s, The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts

Western Democracy, Robinson, Into the Tempest, Journal of World-Systems Research, summer.

2019 “Beyond Moral Persuasion in the Struggle for Migrant and Refugee Justice,” Verso Blog, 22 July,

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4388-beyond-moral-persuasion-in-the-struggle-for-migrant-

and-refugee-justice

2019 “Passive Revolution and the Movement Against Mass Incarceration: From Prison Abolition to

Redemption Script,” Social Justice blog, 9 May, http://www.socialjusticejournal.org/from-prison-

abolition-to-redemption-script/

2019 “Can Twenty-First Century Fascism Resolve the Crisis of Global Capitalism?,” ASA Marxist

Sociology Blog, 24 April, https://marxistsociology.org/2019/04/can-twenty-first-century-fascism-

resolve-the-crisis-of-global-capitalism/

2019 “The Second Implosion of Central America,” NACLA (North American Congress on Latin

America) web magazine, 28 January, https://nacla.org/news/2019/01/28/second-implosion-central-

america. Spanish version published 30 January by Agencia Latinoamericana de Information

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(ALAI), web magazine America Latina en Movimiento,

https://www.alainet.org/es/articulo/197872. Shortened and updated Spanish version in La Jornada

(Mexico), 18 February, https://www.jornada.com.mx/2019/02/18/politica/017a1pol.

2019 “Critique of Patomaki’s Call for a World Political Party,” Global Transitions Initiative, January

2018 “The Recolonization of Latin America by Global Capitalism,” Third World Resurgent, 333/334.

2018 “The Precariat: Today’s Transformative Class,” Global Transitions Initiative, September,

https://greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/207-the-precariat-today-s-transformative-class

2018 “Revitalizing the Latin American Left,” New Frame, 28 September,

https://www.newframe.com/revitalising-left-latin-america

2018 “La Crisis en Nicaragua y El Maniqueísmo de la Izquierda Norteamericana,” Revista America

Latina en Movimiento, 3 September, https://www.alainet.org/es/articulo/195089

2018 “La Renovación de la Izquierda es Urgente,” Revista America Latina en Movimiento, 13 July,

https://www.alainet.org/es/articulo/194098

2018 “Desmoronamiento del Régimen Ortega-Murillo,” Op Ed essay, La Jornada (Mexico), 5 July.

2018 “Capitalist Development in Nicaragua: The Mirage of the Left,” Truthout, 18 May,

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/44490-capitalist-development-in-nicaragua-and-the-mirage-

of-the-left

2018 “Estado Policiaco Global,” 18 January, America Latina en Movimiento, on-line magazine,

https://www.alainet.org/es/articulo/190429

2017 “The Next Great Recession: Digital Capitalism and Global Police State,” Telesur, 16 October,

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Next-Economic-Crisis-Digital-Capitalism-and-

Global-Police-State-20171016-0027.html, reprinted 19 October in Rising Power in Global

Governance, http://risingpowersproject.com/the-next-economic-crisis/. A revised/updated version

of same article published in Dissident Voice, 12 December, https://dissidentvoice.org/2017/12/the-

next-great-recession/.

2017 Interviewed by E-International Relations (a leading on line journal of international politics), 16

September, http://www.e-ir.info/2017/09/16/interview-william-i-robinson/

2017 “What is Behind the Renegotiation of NAFTA: Trumpism and the New Global Economy,”

Truthout, 24 July, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41365-what-is-behind-the-renegotiation-of-

nafta-trumpism-and-the-new-global-economy, published in Spanish as ?Que Hay Detras de la

Renegociación del TLCAN: Trumpismo y la Nueva Economía Global,” Rebelion, 26 July,

http://rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=229567.

2017 “Passive Revolution: The Transnational Capitalist Class Unravels Latin America’s Pink Tide,”

Truthout, 6 June, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40837-passive-revolution-the-transnational-

capitalist-class-unravels-latin-america-s-pink-tide

2017 “La Crisis del Capitalismo Global y la Marcha de Trump hacia la Guerra,” Rebelion, 31 May,

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=227261. A shorted version of this essay was published in

the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, June 1,

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2017/06/01/opinion/018a2pol

2017 Global Capitalism: Reflections on a Brave New World,” Great Transitions Initiative, Tellus

Institute, (June 2017), www.greattransition.org/publication/global-capitalism.

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2017 “Global Capitalist Crisis and Trump’s War Drive,” Telesur, 18 April,

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Global-Capitalist-Crisis-and-Trumps-War-Drive-

20170418-0009.html, updated for Austrian journal, Widerspruch, No. 70, “Die Drise des Globalen

Kapitalismus und Trumps Kriegskurs.”

2017 “China and Trumpism: The Political Contradictions of Global Capitalism”, Jacobin, on-line

version of print magazine, 24 February, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/china-trump-us-

trade-economics-finance/,

2017 “Trumpism, 21st Century Fascism, and the Dictatorship of the Transnational Capitalist Class,”

Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order,” 20 Jan, at

http://www.socialjusticejournal.org/trumpism-21st-century-fascism-and-the-dictatorship-of-the-

transnational-capitalist-class/. An earlier version published Rising Powers in Global Governance,

3 December 2016 at http://risingpowersproject.com/trumpism-21st-century-fascism-dictatorship-

transnational-capitalist-class/

2017 “The Failure of Passive Revolution,” ALAI (Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacion), 4 January,

at http://www.alainet.org/es/node/182634., published in Spanish by Rebelion, 12 January, at

https://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=221536.

2016 “Climate Denial, Trumpism, and Neo-Liberalism,” ALAI (Agencia Latinoamericana de

Informacion), 12 December, at http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/182294.

2016 “Trump y el Fascismo del Siglo XXI,” La Jornada (Mexico) 4 December.

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2016/12/04/opinion/026a1mun. Reprinted in ALAI (Agencia

Latinoamericana de Informacion), 28 November, available online at

http://www.alainet.org/es/articulo/181986

2016 “Contra el Capitalismo Global, Las Luchas Transnacionales,” interview in El Proceso, Mexico, 27

November.

2016 “Trump y el Fascismo del Siglo XXI,” ALAI (Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacion), 28

November, available online at http://www.alainet.org/es/articulo/181986.

2016 “Violence, Displacement, and Death: The Pivot of Capitalist Globalization,” contribution to

symposium on Drug War Capitalism, NACLA Report on the Americas, 48(2):132-135.

2016 “Sadistic Capitalism: Six Urgent Matters for Humanity in Global Crisis,” Truthout, April 12, can

be accessed at: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35596-sadistic-capitalism-six-urgent-

matters-for-humanity-in-global-crisis

2016 “Reform is Not Enough to Stem The Rising Tide of Inequality Worldwide,” Truthout, January 1,

can be accessed at: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34224-reform-is-not-enough-to-stem-the-

rising-tide-of-inequality-worldwide

2015 “Pull Latin America’s Informal Sector into Formal,” America’s Quarterly, Summer 2015.

2015 “Entrevista de Victor Acuna a William I. Robinson, Realizada en Noviembre de 2014,” in Victor

Acuna Soto, Mare Nostrum II: Las Reformas en Cuba, Mexico D.F.: Jaime Salcido y Romo

Editor, 2015.

2014 “In the Wake of Ayotzinapa: A Donde va Mexico?”, El Beisman website on news, analysis, and

culture from Latin America, http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=477, 1

December.

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2014 “The Political Economy of Israeli Apartheid and the Specter of Genocide,” Truthout, September

19, can be accessed at http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26254-the-political-economy-of-israeli-

apartheid-and-the-specter-of-genocide#

2014 “Global Capitalism: Crisis of Humanity and the Specter of 21st Century Fascism,” The World

Financial Review, print (May-June edition) and on line edition (May 28),

http://www.worldfinancialreview.com/?p=1799.

2014 “Toward a 21st Century Reading of Latin America: A Sympathetic Critique of Ronaldo Munck’s

Rethinking Latin America: Development, Hegemony, and Social Transformation ,” symposium in

Global Discourse.

2013 “L’Amerique Latine Face Au Nouveau Capitalisme Mondialise,” Mouvements, No. 76, 14-24,

2013/2014.

2013 “The New Global Capitalism and the War on Immigrants,” Truthout, 13 September

(http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18623-the-new-global-capitalism-and-the-war-on-

immigrants).

2013 “New Face of the War on Immigrants? U.S. Immigration Reform,” Al Jazeera English, July 10,

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/07/201372142250284963.html

2012 “Latin America and the New Global Capitalism,” NACLA Report on the Americas, 45(2):13-18.

2012 “Global Crisis and the Specter of 21st Century Fascism,” RADAR: Journal of Art and Thought,

journal of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and Leon, Spain, 1(1):1-10.

2011 “El Capitalismo Global En Jaque? Crisis Estructural y Rebelion Popular Global,” published in

Spanish in monthly magazine America Latina En Movimiento (ALAI), December 2011 (35/2,

#471:3-6, 18), and in English as “Global Rebellion: The Coming Chaos?”, 4 December,

published in English in Al Jazeera English.

2011 “Peut-on Changer Le Monde? Les voies du socialisme latino-americain,” Le Monde

Diplomatique, November issue, pp. 13, 18-19.

2011 “Global Capitalism and 21st Century Fascism,” 8 March, published in English in Al Jazeera

English, in Spanish at Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacion (Latin American New Agency),

and in French at on-line magainze La Revue des /Ressources,

http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article2021

2011 “The Money Mandarins of Global Capitalism,” States, Power, and Societies, Newsletter of

Political Sociology Section, ASA, (16)2:1, 4-5, 9.

2010 “Global Capitalism Theory and the Emergence of Transnational Elites,” Working Paper No.

2010/02, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-

WIDER), Helsinki, January. This Working Paper is also uploaded at WIDER website,

http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/2010/en_GB/wp2010-02/

2010 “The Challenge of 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela,” interview with Eleftherotypia (Greek

daily newspaper), published in English online on 1 February in Znet at

http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticlePrint/23797, and at

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/5112 on Feb. 2

2009 “Cuba! Cuba! Cuba!,” Latin American Perspectives.

2008 “La Promocion de la Anti-Democracia: Proyecto de la Elite Transnactional,” ALAI, 1 December,

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http://alainet.org/active/27803&lang=es

2008 “El Proceso Electoral Salvadoreño en el Contexto del Capitalismo Global y Su Crisis,” ALAI, 6

October, http://alainet.org/active/26739&lang=es

2008 “Nubarrones sobre la Humanidad: El Sistema Global y las Elecciones Norteamericanas,” Politica

Exterior y Soberania, June:16-19

2008 “Democracy and Development in the Global South,” Contexts, 7(1):74-77.

2008 “Debating Strategy in the Immigrant Rights Movement” and “Immigrant Labor in the Global

Economy,” two essays in quarterly magazine, Justice Rising, 3(4):1-3.

2007 “El Capitalismo Global, Segun el Sociologo William Robinson: ‘Los Estados Hoy Responden

Mas a Las Existencias del Capital que a las Demandas Populares’,” interview published in

Cronicon electronic news and analysis website (edited in Bogota, Colombia), 19 August, at

www.cronicon.net/paginas/edicanter/ediciones 16/nota1.htm.

2007 “Transnational Capitalism: An Interview with William Robinson,” Greek daily newspaper

Eleftherotypia, August 8, also translated back to English and posted on Znet,

www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12582.

2007 “De Bush a Bush: Crisis Global y Politica Exterior de los Estados Unidos hacia America Latina,”

Politica Exterior y Soberania, 2(1), Jan.-March:65-69.

2007 “Why the Immigrant Rights Struggle Compels Us to Reconceptualize both Latin American and

Latino/a Studies,” LASA Forum,

2007 “Globalization and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the United States,” Znet on-line essay,

posted March 10, available at

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=30&ItemID=12308

2007 “In the Name of Democracy: U.S. Electoral Intervention in the Americas,” NACLA Report on the

Americas, scheduled for 2007.

2007 “Marxism,” entry, Encyclopedia of Globalization. New York: Grolier Academic.

2007 “Transnationality,” entry, Encylopedia of Globalization. New York: Grolier Academic.

2006 “Latin America: State Power and the Challenge to Global Capital: An Interview with William

Robinson,” Upping the Ante, No. 3, Fall:59-75. Also: reprinted in Focus on Trade, No. 125, Nov.

2006 “Inmigrantes en Estados Unidos: ‘Vamos a Dar Un Golpe a la Extrema Derecha y al Imperio,”

American Latina en Movimiento, No. 413, October:27-31.

2006 “El Nuevo Intervencionismo Politico de EEUU en America Latina: Promoviendo la Poliarquia,”

America Latina en Movimiento, No. 404-405, February: 12-16. An English version of this article

was posted on 17 Februery at website of Latin America Information Agency (ALAI),

http://alainet.org/active/10626&lang=en.

2004 “The New Right and the End of National Liberation,” NACLA Report on the Americas, XXXVII,

No. 6, May/June 2004:15-20.

2004 “The Crisis of Global Capitalism and the Folly of Conventional Thinking on It,” From the Left,

Vol 25, No.1, pp. 1, 11-12.

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2003 “Nubarrones sobre America Latina,” Memoria: Revista Mensual de Political y Cultura, No. 171,

May 2003:34-37.

2003 “Storm Clouds over Latin America,” Third World Resurgence, No. 149-150, Jan-Feb. 2003:26-28,

revised/reprinted version of article appearing earlier in Smysl Magazines

2002 “Storm Clouds over Latin America,” 'Smysl' Magazine (Moscow), Guest Commentary, Primer

Issue, Vol. 1, November. Reprinted in “Focus on Trade,” Bangkok, No. 84, January 2003.

2001 “La Globalizacion Capitalista y la Transnacionalizacion del Estado,” Espacios, No.

13/Enero/Junio:4-23.

2001 “Intervention,” entry, The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, Oxford University Press.

2001 “Fissures in the Globalist Ruling Bloc: The Politics of Globalization From Above and Below”

(with Jerry Harris), cy.Rev, No. 7, Spring 2001.

2000 “The Hegemony of a Paradigm: The Transnational Elite Agenda of Free Markets and

Democracy,” NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 34, No. 3:42-48).

1998 "Centroamerica ante la Globalizacion y la Responsabilidad de los Intelectuales Organicos,"

Alternativas 5(No. 9/1998):31-56.

1997 "Maldesarrollo en America Central," Pensamiento Propio 1 (No. 5):33-67.

1997 "Un Caso de Estudio sobre los Procesos Globalizadores en el Tercer Mundo: Los Procesos

Transnacionales en Nicaragua," Pensamiento Propio 1 (No. 3):193-228.

1993 "Has Neo-Liberalism Produced a Success Story in Chile? A Critique of the 'Economic Miracle',"

Chronicle of Latin American Economic Affairs, Latin American Institute, University of New

Mexico, July.

1992 "The Sao Paulo Forum: Is There a New Latin American Left" (Review of the Month), Monthly

Review 44 (No. 7/December):1-13.

1992 "Demilitarization in Central America: Beginning of a New Era?", Central America Report, Latin

American Institute, University of New Mexico.

1990 "Nicaragua: The Making of a Democratic Opposition," NACLA Report on the Americas, XXII

(No. 5/Feb. 1990):7-11

1985 "Nicaragua: The Strategy of Counterrevolution," Monthly Review 37 (No. 7/December):11-25

1985 "Centroamerica: Se Profundiza la Crisis del Comercio Regional," Pensamiento Propio (CRIES) 3

(No. 23/May): 18-21.

1985 "Regular las Leyes del Mercado," Panorama (Mexico City/May 1985):23-27

1985 "La Contra: Corrupcion y Grietas," Pensamiento Propio (CRIES) 3 (No. 25/August):62-67.

Books Translated

1992 A Peasant Tragedy (Spanish to English Translation). Managua: Center for International Studies (Central

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American University).

Reports and Monographs

2014 “As Repression Escalates on US Campuses, An Account of My Ordeal with the Israel Lobby and

UC,” TruthOut, 17 August, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25587-as-repression-escalates-on-

us-campuses-an-account-of-my-ordeal-with-the-israel-lobby-and-uc.

1996 "Un Aporte al Debate Sobre La Globalization; Nueve Tesis Sobre Nuestra Epoca," Cuardernos de

Investigacion, Center for International Studies, Central American University, Managua, April

1996.

1995 Guest Preface, in "A Report on U.S. Electoral Assistance to Haiti," Voices for Haiti (coalition of

75 U.S. development and human rights NGOs), June 1995.

1991 "Managing the Aftershocks: A Second Track Diplomatic Dialogue on Nicaragua," Policy Report

on Conference on Nicaragua, sponsored by the Kellog Foundation and hosted by the Program in

International Conflict Resolution of the Armand Hammer United World College, Montezuma,

New Mexico.

1988 "Special Report: The 'Chileanization' of the Nicaraguan Counterrevolution," Central America

Information Bulletin 5 (No. 6/February).

1987 "In the Wake of Contragate," CENSA'S Strategic Report, Center for the Study of the Americas,

No. 9, June.

1986 "Inside the Nicaraguan War," CENSA'S Strategic Report, Center for the Study of the Americas,

No. 7, May.

Book Reviews

2016 Immanuel Wallerstein, Charles Lemert, and Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Uncertain Worlds: World-

Systems Analysis in Changing Times, for Contemporary Sociology, 45(6):813-814.

2014 Ronaldo Munck, Rethinking Latin America: Development, Hegemony and Social Transformation,

for Latin American Perspectives.

2013 Leslie C. Gates, Electing Chavez: The Business of Anti-Neoliberal Politics in Venezuela, for

Journal of World-Systems Research.

2012 Luke Martell, The Sociology of Globalization, Czech Sociological Review. 48(6):12-15.

2010 Valentine M. Moghadam, Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the

Global Justice Movement, Contemporary Sociology, 39(2):187-188.

2009 Eric H. Mielants, The Origins of Capitalism and the ‘Rise of the West’, for Contemporary

Sociology, 38(2):176-177

2009 Andreas Bieler, Werner Bonefeld, Peter Burnham and Adam David Morton, Global Restructuring,

State, Capital and Labour: Contesting Neo-Gramscian Perspectives, Capital and Class, 98:146-

148.

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2007 Juan Pablo Perez Sainz and Katharine E. Andrade-Eekhoff, Communities in Globalization: The

Invisible Mayan Nahual, for Journal of Latin American Studies, 39:192-194.

2006 Review of Deborah J. Yashar, Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous

Movements and the Postliberal Challenge, for American Journal of Sociology, 111(6).

2003 Review of Berch Berberoglu (ed.), Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization, for

Contemporary Sociology. 32(6):707-709.

2002 Review of Vicente Navarro (ed.), The Political Economy of Social Inequalities: Consequences for

Health and Quality of Life, for Contemporary Sociology.31(6):685-687.

2002 Review of John Mangan, Workers Without Traditional Employment: An International Study of

Non-Standard Work, for Contemporary Sociology, 31(2):148-149.

2001 Review of Martin Shaw, Theory of the Global State: Globality as an Unfinished Revolution, for

American Political Science Review, 95(4):1045-1047

2001 Review of Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World

System, for Journal of World-System Research., Vol. VII, No. 1, Spring 2001.

2001 Review of Alex Callinicos, Social Theory: An Historical Introducion, for The Global Site,

University of Sussex (www.theglobalsiste.ac.uk)

2000 Review of William M. Leogrande, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America,

1977-1992, for American Political Science Review, Vol. 94, No. 4:991-992

1997 Review of Gearoid O'Tuathail, Critical Geopolitics, for Ecumene: A Journal of Environment -

Culture - Meaning, Vol. 4, No. 4:486-488.

Courses Taught, 1994 - 2013

Soc. 504. Sociological Foundations of Political Economy (graduate)

Soc. 442. Comparative Poverty and Development

Soc. 695. Advanced Topics in Political Economy: Globalization: Contours of 21st

Century World Society (graduate)

Soc. 448/548. International Development and the World System

Soc. 351. Sociological Theory (undergraduate)

Soc. 552. Sociological Theory (graduate)

Soc. 342. Power and Society

Soc. 340. Class Analysis

Soc. 221. Rich and Poor Nations

Soc. 451. Population and Environnent

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Soc. 213. Sociology of Deviant Behavior

Soc. 313. Social Control

Soc. 101/1. Introduction to Sociology

Soc. 212. Causes of Crime and Delinquency

Soc. 501. Perspectives in Sociology

Soc. 265GS. Global Political Economy (graduate)

Soc. 265SG. Sociology of Globalization (graduate)

Soc. 130LA. Development and Social Change in Latin America.

Soc. 1222GI. Global Inequalities

Soc. 265GI. Global Inequalities (graduate)

Soc. 130GR. Globalization and Resistance

Soc. 130SW. Sociology of the Southwest

Soc. 130sg, Sociology of Globalization (undergraduate)

LAIS 101/201, History and Sociology of Latin America

Soc. 265LA. Sociology of Latin America. (graduate)

Soc. 233R. Twentieth Century Revolutions in Theory and Practice (graduate)

Research Positions

2016-present Research Associate, Grupo de Trabajo (Working Group) on Fronteras, Integracion Regional y

Globalizacion en el Continente Americano (Borders, Regional Integration and Globalization in the

American Continent), Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) Latin American

Social Science Council)

2006-present Research Associate, Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras, National

Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico D.F.

1990 - 1997 Research Associate, Center for International Studies, Central American University, Managua,

Nicaragua.

1990 - 1993 Analyst and Researcher, Latin American Data Base LADB), Latin American Institute, University

of New Mexico. Responsibilities included preparing bi-weekly analysis and occasional

monographs of Central and South American and Caribbean developments and underlying

political, social and economic trends

1985 - 1987 Researcher, Writer-Editor, Pensamiento Propio, a monthly academic journal of the Coordinadora

Regional de Investigaciones Economicas y Sociales (CRIES-Regional Coordinating Board for

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Economic and Social Research), a Central American and Caribbean regional research center,

Managua branch (loosely affiliated with the Central American University).

Research Funding

2014 Recipient of Research Grant, Academic Senate, University of California-Santa Barbara

2013 Recipient of Research Grant, Academic Senate, University of California-Santa Barbara.

2010 Recipient of Research Grant, Academic Senate, University of California-Santa Barbara.

2008 Recipient of Research Grant, Academic Senate, University of California-Santa Barbara.

2007 Recipient of Research Grant, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, University

of California-Santa Barbara

2005 Recipient of Research Grant, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, University

of California-Santa Barbara

2005 Recipient of Research Grant, Academic Senate, University of California-Santa Barbara

2003 Recipient of Research Grant, Faculty Senate, University of California-Santa Barbara.

2002 Recipient of Faculty Career Development Award, University of California-Santa Barbara.

2002 Recipient of Research Grant, Faculty Senate, University of California-Santa Barbara.

1999 Recipient of Research Mini-Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University.

1998 Recipient of Professional Development Award, Graduate School, University of Tennessee,

Knoxville.

1992 Recipient of Latin America Research Grant, Latin American Institute, University of New Mexico,

Albuquerque.

Professional Service and Positions

2019+ Member of Editorial Board, Science and Society.

2018+ Member of Editorial Board, Frontiers in Communication.

2018+ Member of International Advisory Board, Center for Global Governance, Shanghai University.

2016+ Member of International Editorial Board, International Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and

Education.

2016 Guest editor, special issue of Journal of World-Systems Research, Symposium: Race in the

Capitalist World-System, Vol. 22, No. 1.

2015+ Member of the Editorial Board, Madridge Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

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2015+ Member of international editorial board, International Humanities Studies.

2015 Chair, Distinguished Article Award Committee, Political Economy of the World-System, PEWS

Section, American Sociological Association.

2014-2015 Chair, Political Economy of the World System (PEWS) section of the American Sociological

Association (ASA).

2014 Grant Review Committee member, UC-Mexus, December.

2014 Chair, Distinguished Book Award Committee, Political Economy of the World-System PEWS

Section, American Sociological Association.

2014+ Contributing Editor, NACLA Report on the Americas

2013 Chair-elect of the Political Economy of the World System (PEWS) section of the American

Sociological Association (ASA). Elected spring 2013, serving on Council as chair-elect 2013-14

and as chair 2014-15.

2013 Convener, organizer, and presider, university-wide panel on immigration reform and immigrant

rights, “Which Way Forward for the Immigrant Rights Struggle,” Multicultural Center, UCSB, 17

October.

2013+ Member of Editorial Board, Class, Race, and Corporate Power

2013+ Member of Editorial Board, African Journal on Economic and Development Policies

2012+ Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Comparative Sociology

2011+ Member of Editorial Board, The Global Social Justice Journal

2010+ Member of Editorial Board, Sociological Mind.

2009+ Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Geopolitics, History, and International Relations.

2009+ Member of Editorial Collective, Societies Without Borders

2009+ Member of International Advisory Board, Islamic Perspectives

2009+ Member of Editorial Board, Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation (journal name changed in

2013 to Triple C: Communication, Capitalism, and Critique.

2008+ Member of Board of Associate Editors, Journal of World Systems Research.

2008+ Member of International Advisory Board, Hemispheres: A Journal of the Global South.

2008+ Faculty Advisor to the following student organization at the University of California at Santa

Barbara: IDEAS (Improving Dreams, Equality, Access and Success); Union Salvadoreña de

Estudiantes Universitarios; Campus Left.

2007+ Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Critical Studies on Business and Society.

2007 Organizer, Presidential Plenary, “The Immigrants Rights Struggle in the United States: Voices

from the Frontline,” and “Central America: Global Capitalism and Resistance,” Latin American

Studies Association, 27th International Congress, Montreal, 5-8 September.

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2006 Organizer, two sessions on Sociology of Globalization, American Sociological Association,

Annual Congress, August 11-14, Montreal.

2006+ Associated Faculty Member, Doctoral Program in Development Studies, Autonomous University

of Zacatecas, Mexico.

2005+ Member of Editorial Board, Nature and Culture.

2005+ Member of International Advisory Committee, “In the Name of Democracy: Towards a Global

Political Intervention Monitor,” En Camino (International NGO, see

http://inthenameofdemocracy.org/).

2004+ Member of Advisory Board, Government and International Affairs Program, Virginia Tech

University

2004+ Member of Faculty/Advisory Board, and Visiting Professor, Instituto de Estudios Globales,

Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2004+ Member of International Editorial Board, Globalizations (refereed interdisciplinary journal).

2004+ Member of Editorial Board, AcontraCorriente:A Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin

America (http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente), North Carolina State University.

2003+ Participating Editor, Latin American Perspectives.

2003+ Board of Advisory Editors, Palgrave-Macmillan, Handbook of International Political Economy

2003+ Member of International Advisory Board, The Global Site, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

2002-3 Co-organizer and co-host, international conference, “Towards a Critical Globalization Studies:

Continued Debates, Neglected Topics, New Directions,” University of California at Santa

Barbara, May 1-4, 2003, co-sponsored by UCSB, Global Studies Association, and Institute for the

Study of World Systems.

2002+ Executive Board Member and West Coast Representative, Global Studies Association, North

American Chapter.

2002-4 Council Member, Political Economy of the World System section, American Sociological

Association.

2001 Co-organizer, Session on “Class Formation in the Modern World System,” American Sociological

Association, 96th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, August 18-21.

1998 Organizer, Session on "Global Democracy", American Sociological Association, 93rd Annual

Meeting, San Francisco, August 21-25.

Co-Organizer, Political Economy of the World-Systems Section of the American Sociological

Association, Roundtable Session, 93rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 21-25.

Articles Reviewed for Refereed Journals and Other Review Work

1997: The Sociological Quarterly

Global Society

Journal of Oromo Studies

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1998: Global Society

Sociological Forum

Science and Society

McGraw-Hill (review of text)

Journal of Oromo Studies (two reviews)

1999: International Sociology

Global Governance

Sociological Forum (two articles reviewed)

National Science Foundation (review of two different research proposal)

Social Problems (two articles reviewed)

St. Martins Press (book manuscript reviewed)

Worth Publishers (text manuscript reviewed)

Critical Sociology

International Politics

2001: American Sociological Review

Sociological Forum

Critical Sociology (two)

Latin American Perspectives (two)

Worth Publishers (text manuscript reviewed)

University of Minnesota Press (book manuscript reviewed)

National Science Foundation (review of research proposal)

Review of International Studies

Theory and Society

Kumarian Press (book manuscript reviewed)

Political Power and Social Theory

2002 Social Science Research Council (reviewer for International Disseration Award Fellowship)

International Journal of Peace Studies

New Political Economy

2003 Review of International Political Economy

Routledge Press (two manuscript proposals reviewed)

SUNY-Press (book manuscript reviewed)

American Journal of Sociology

Theory and Society

2004 Left History

Sociological Inquiry

2005 American Journal of Sociology

Journal of Consumer Culture

Latin American Perspectives (two reviews)

Johns Hopkins University Press (book manuscript review)

Globalizations

2006 Latin American Perspectives (two reviews)

Globalisations

Theory and Society

Science and Society

Sociological Quarterly

Polity Press (book proposal review)

Bulletin of Latin American Research

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2007 Bulletin of Latin American Research

Ashgate Publishing Co. (book manuscript review)

Latin American Perspectives (two reviews)

Routledge Press (book proposal review)

Blackwell Publishers (book proposal review)

Globalizations

Science and Society

2008 Latino Studies

Latin American Perspectives

2009 Latin American Perspectives

Routledge (book proposal review)

Nature and Culture

Globalizations

2010 New Political Economy\

Review of International Studies

Australian Journal of Political Science

ISA Compendium of International Studies (annual compendium article review)

Societies Without Borders

Journal of World-Systems Research

2011 Global Networks

Routledge Press (book proposal review)

Critical Sociology

Palgrave MacMillan (book proposal review)

Sociology without Borders

2012 Latin American Perspectives (three reviews)

Sociological Theory (two reviews)

Journal of World-Systems Research

Historical Materialism

2013 African Journal of Political Science and International Relations

Journal of World-Systems Research

Sociological Quarterly

2014 Sociological Quarterly

Journal of World-Systems Research

Latin American Perspectives

Class, Race and Corporate Power

2015 Journal of Sustainable Tourism

2016 Latin American Perspectives (four reviews)

2017 Identities

Journal of World-Systems Research

Cambridge University Press (review of book manuscript)

Routledge (review of book manuscript)

2018 Contemporary Politics

Latin American Perspectives (4 reviews)

Theory and Society

Sociological Mind

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Routledge (review of book manuscript)

Social Justice

2019 Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (review of funding proposal)

Cambridge University Press (review of book manuscript)

Social Justice

Latin American Perspectives (four reviews)

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations

International Critical Thought

Globalizations

Routledge (review of book manuscript)

Other Professional Experience

Professional Consulting

1989 - 1990 Consultant, Government of Nicaraguan (Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry). Analyst on U.S. Policy,

electoral affairs.

1980 Analyst, American Committee on Africa (New York). Researched and prepared reports on

Southern African affairs and U.S. policy towards Africa.

Professional Journalism

1987 - 1990 Washington Bureau Chief, and U.S. Representative for Agencia Nueva Nicaragua (ANN), a

Nicaragua-based international news agency. Responsibilities included running the Washington

bureau, covering Congress, the executive branch, the Organization of American States and the

diplomatic community in Washington. Daily dispatches for the ANN Spanish language wire

service, as well as weekly analyses and special services.

From 12/87 to 12/88, Editor, English-language edition: Central America Information Bulletin, a

weekly ANN publication of news and analysis.

1982 - 1987 Agencia Nueva Nicaragua, central offices, Managua. Position varied over the years, and included:

Staff Editor for both Spanish and English language services, Managing Editor in both

Spanish and English of the Central America Information Bulletin. 1987

Roving ANN Central America correspondent, with special assignments in Honduras and

Guatemala. Covered events throughout Central America.

ANN War Correspondent, Nicaraguan war fronts and Nicaraguan Atlantic Coast.

Specialized coverage of the Atlantic Coast, including prolonged stays in that region of

Nicaragua. 1985

Coordinator, Economic Team, ANN, Managing Editor. Responsibilities included

planning and coordinating out of the Managua offices ANN's coverage of the Central

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American economies, and editing the Boletin Economico Centroamericano. 1984-1985

Staff Reporter. Responsibilities included covering press conferences and any other news

in the Nicaragua capital.

1980 - Free Lance Journalism (see below).

Other

1983 - Free Lance Translator/Interpreter. Numerous free lance assignments as translator and interpreter

(consecutive), Spanish-English and English-Spanish.

1978 High School Teacher (Social Studies), Machacos, Kenya.

Honors and Awards

2018 “Lifetime Achievement” award by Marquis Who’s Who in America

2015 Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity won the Political Economy of the World-System

section of the American Sociological Association Distinguished Book Award for 2015. Global

Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity won the Paul Sweezy Distinguished Book Award from the

Marxist Sociology section of the American Sociological Association for 2015. Global Capitalism

and the Crisis of Humanity received honorable mention from the Global Division of the Society

for the Study of Social Problems for Distinguished Book for 2015.

2009 Latin America and Global Capitalism was awarded the British International Studies Association's

International Political Economy Book Prize for 2009

2004+ Selected for inclusion as biographee in Who’s Who in Social Science Higher Education.

2004+ Selected for inclusion as biographee in 2000 Outstanding Academics of the 21st Century,

International Biographical Centre, Cambridge University.

2003+ Selected for inclusion as biographee in America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals.

2003+ Selected for inclusion as biographee in Who’s Who in the World (Marquis), starting with 21st

Edition (2003).

2000+ Selected for inclusion as biographee in Who’s Who in America (Marquis), starting with 55th

Edition (2001).

2000+ Selected for inclusion in Directory of American Scholars, starting with 10th Edition.

1999 Promoting Polyarchy was a finalist for the 1999 Distinguished Publication Award of the American

Sociological Association.

1999 Globe of the Month Recipient, The Center for International Programs, New Mexico State

University. Award in recognition of outstanding efforts in the promotion of international

understanding, cooperation, involvement and development.

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1997 Promoting Polyarchy won the 1997 PEWS (Political Economy of the World System section of the

American Sociological Association) Award for Distinguished Scholarship.

1995 Inductee, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

1987 David and Goliath won the Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of

Human Rights in the United States, University of Arkansas, for books published in 1987 on the

subject of intolerance in the United States.

Invited Public Presentations, Media Interviews, Conference Presentations, Visiting Professorships

(The following is a partial listing)

2019 “The Rise of the Radical Right and the Threat of Twenty-First Century Fascism,” conference

presentation and panel discussion, Critical Theory in Dark Times, 10 October, University of

California at Santa Barbara.

2019 Twenty-minute live interview on RTV on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposed reform

of the NY public education system and its implications for public education in the United States,

23 August.

2019 Two video-conference lectures for summer course, "Espacios globales para la expansión del

capital transnacional", CLACSO (Latin American Social Science Council): 1) “Elementos

Centrales de una Teoría Sobre el Capitalismo Global”; 2) “Escenario Global: Crisis y

Transformación”, 9 August and 16 August.

2019 “Facing the Tempest of Global Class War,” one-hour live interview with “This is Hell!” radio

show, recording available here: https://thisishell.com/interviews/1066-william-i-

robinson?fbclid=IwAR0-

poGcHxX5Cq4L0PLMtRK1Q6Oqpje7wWx06Uoz00Qr4kIFPVGi2tl_sdo

2019 One-hour interview on Project Censored nationwide radio show on a variety of topics related to

global politics, 28 May.

2019 Interviewed by Real News Network (RRN television) on variety of topics related to the

contemporary Latin American political situation, 20 February.

2019 Interviewed by RT Television on the political situation in Haiti, 13 February.

2019 Interviewed by i24News television on Venezuela crisis, 8 February,

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/96669b877c3919c1afdb3ab4267fffc020190211165849/956856

91dd5da0bb7453b255ffb6a93120190211165849/f31f7c

2019 Presentation, “The Second Implosion of Central America,” and seminar participation on Central

American crisis, Caribbean Central American Research Council, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1-2 February.

2019 One-hour interview on The Gary Null Show (Pacifica), on the Venezuela/US crisis, and the Latin

American situation, 29 January.

2019 Interviewed by KPFA (Pacifica/Berkeley) on the Venezuela/US crisis, 25 January.

2019 Interviewed by RT Television on the Venezuelan crisis, 16 January.

2018 Interviewed by NPR radio on the Central American migrant caravan, 18 December.

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2018 “La Situación Política en Nicaragua,” organizer and presenter, public/community forum on

Nicaragua, UCLA Labor Center, Los Angeles, 16 December

2018 “Coming to America: Understanding the Migrant Caravan Requires an Awareness of Central

America’s Recent History, Social Scientists Say,” interviewed by The Current, 13 December,

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/019285/coming-

america?fbclid=IwAR3JQ9vRTpQuOxRInpuPGms4h5vaM8kKcwoM-

nEHk070YinSYBDuiYkPgZo.

2018 “Capitalist Crisis and Twenty-First Century Fascism: Beyond the Trump Hype,” talk by invitation

to the editorial board of Science and Society journal, New York City.

2018 “El Resurgimiento de la Derecha en America Latina,” round table presentation by video-

conference to CLACSO (Latin American Social Science Council) annual meeting, 28 November,

Buenos Aires

2018 “Digital Capitalism and Ecosocialism,” keynote speech, conference on Ecosocialism (organized

by coalition of community and environmental activist organizations), Los Angeles, 18 November

2018 Panel presentation and discussion on “La Frontera Mexico-Estados Unidos: Espacio Global para

la Expansión del Capital Transnacional (Juan Manuel Sandoval Palacios), UCLA Labor Center,

Los Angeles

2018 Testimony before the Foro Binacional Migrante (Binational Forum on Migration) on the impacts

of the new US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, Los Angeles City Hall, 19 October

2018 One-half hour live interview on KPFA radio station on the new US-Mexico-Canada trade

agreement, 16 October

2018 “We Will Not Be Silenced,” panel presentation and discussion, Ana Lucas Lecture Series, Justice

Studies Department, San Jose State University, 25 September.

2018 Interviewed by RT Television on US-Cuba relations, 28 August.

2018 Half-hour interview on RT Television on the Brazilian electoral process, 24 August.

2018 Interviewed by Mexican magazine El Proceso on the Mexican elections, July 1.

2018 “Global Capitalist Crisis and the Global Grey Zone,” keynote address, Global Studies Association

Annual Congress, 6-9 June, Washington, D.C.

2018 One-hour interview on The Gary Null Show on digital capitalism, global police state, and the

global economy. 21 May.

2018 Interviewed by Harvard Political Review on the spread of “slum tourism” around the developing

world, 18 May, article can be accessed here: http://harvardpolitics.com/covers/five-star/

2018 Interviewed live by RT Television on the Venezuelan elections, 20 May.

2018 One-half hour live interview by RT Television on U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and upcoming

Venezuelan elections, 7 May.

2018 “Global Crisis: Perspectives and Challenges,” colloquium, invited by Global Studies Department,

University of California at Santa Barbara 18 April.

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2018 Half hour interview on New Zealand Public Television on contemporary global trade negotiations,

5 April.

2018 Interviewed by Sputnik Radio (Uruguay) on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin

Luther King, Jr., 4 April.

2018 Interviewed by Project Censored (radio show) on “radical sociology”, 28 March.

2018 “Digital Capitalism and Global Police State,” closing keynote, 2018 Society for Global Scholars

conference, Santa Barbara, 3 March.

2018 One-hour interview on FreshEd radio podcast on the stock market plunge and global economic

crisis, 13 February 2018. May be accessed at http://www.freshedpodcast.com/robinson/

2018 Interviewed by MintPress on U.S. Operation Pacific Eagle in the Philippines, 5 February.

2018 One hour live interview on topics related to my research on global police state, crisis, and twenty-

first century fascism, Radio Free Winnipeg (Canada), 29 January, may be accessed here:

http://radiofreewinnipeg.tumblr.com/post/171299459377/fascism-antifa-episode-2-capitalism-

fascism

2017 One-hour live interview on topics related to the global economy and to Latin America, on

“Corporations and Democracy” weekly radio show, KZWX, northern California, 12 December.

2017 Presentation on free trade and digital economy, closing plenary session, Binational Conference on

the North American Free Trade Agreement, California State University-Dominguez Hills, 2

December.

2017 Interviewed live by RT International Television on Honduran elections and political conflict, 2

December

2017 “Trumpism and Trade Policy,” half-hour webinar lecture, Trade Justice Alliance, 19 November.

2017 “Capitalismo Global, Crisis, y America Latina,” opening keynote address, 4th Biannual

Conference of the Network for the Critical Study of Global Capitalism, in conjunction with the

Association of Latin American and Caribbean Historians, Havana, Cuba, 1 November.

2017 Half-hour live interview on the state of the global economy, The Gary Null Show, WBAI and

other Pacifica Radio stations, 19 October.

2017 “Global Capitalism and the Breakdown of the Post-WWII International Order,” invited lecture,

Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, 18 October.

2017 One-hour interview by Project Censored on the situation in South America, U.S. politics,

Trumpism, and global economic crisis, aired on Pacifica and 40 other radio stations nation-wide,

24 August.

2017 Half hour live interview with Sputnik Latinoamerica South American radio station, based in

Montevideo, Uruguay, on the topics of Trump, the North American Free Trade Agreement

renegotiation, the global economy, US policy towards Latin America, and the threat of

international military conflict, 23 August.

2017 “Una Teoria Sobre el Capitalismo Global: Perspectivas Criticas para America Latina,” one-week

intensive seminar, for graduate students and faculty members of the school of social sciences,

National University of Costa Rica, by invitation from dean and program director, 7-11 August.

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2017 One-half hour TV/radio interview on Sonali Kolhatkar’s show, “Rise Up With Sonali,” on my

2017 co-edited book, We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics, and

related topics. 13 July, http://www.risingupwithsonali.com/we-will-not-be-silenced-the-academic-

repression-of-israels-critics/.

2017 “El Gobierno de Trump: Desafios para America Latina,” keynote opening speech, Foro de Sao

Paulo (San Paulo Forum) regional (U.S., Mexico, Central America) meeting, Los Angeles, 8 July.

2017 Two keynotes in Mexico: 1) “Diagnostico de la Globalizacion en el Marco de la Presidencia de

Donald Trump,” Centro de Investigaciones Sobre America del Norte (CISAN), National

Autonomous University of Mexico, 14 June; 2) “El Analisis de Trumpismo en el Marco de la

Crisis del Capitalismo Global,” conferencia on “Foro Educacion Superior, Trabajo, y Capitalismo

Global,” National School of Anthropology and History, 15 June.

2017 “Seguridad en el Contexto de un Mundo Globalizado Desde una Perspectiva Critica,” speech

given to the Mexican Senate, at the invitation of Senator Manuel Bartlett-Diaz, 13 June, Youtube

recording here: http://paginabierta.mx/desigualdad-social-principio-la-militarizacion-en-mexico/

2017 “Un hecho el resurgimiento de una ultraderecha neofascista, William I. Robinsonm,” interview by

Mexican monthly magazine Union de Periodistas, 1(3), June,

http://www.unionperiodistas.com/noticias/un-hecho-el-resurgimiento-de-una-ultraderecha-

neofascista-william-i-robinson/?cn=bWVudGlvbg%3D%3D

2017 “La Renegociacion del Tratado de Libre Comercio de America del Norte y el Trumpismo,”

opening plenary address, “Encuentro de Organizaciones Sociales Canada-Estados Unidos-

Mexico,” 26 May, Mexico City (by video-conference). Published on June 17 by Mexican daily La

Jornada:

http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/robinson/Assets/pdf/La%20Jornada%20del%20Campo%20Robin

son.pdf

2017 Co-convener, co-organizer, and presenter, all-day workshop on “Trumpismo, Lucha Inmigrante y

de Mujeres” (Trumpism, Immigrant and Women’s Struggles), public formum, UCLA Labor

Center, Los Angeles, 4 March.

2017 “U.S. Militarism, the Middle East, and Global Capitalist Crisis,” one-hour interview on “It’s the

Empire, Stupid” radio show, published as podcast here:

https://www.spreaker.com/user/9119584/empire-episode8-williamrobinson

2017 “Trumpism and Capitalism,” one hour interview of me by journalist Justin Podur for The

Ossington Circle, 17 February, published as podcast here: : https://podur.org/node/1157.

2017 “What is Trumpism,” presentation on panel on “Trumpism, Fascism, and Racism,” Day of

Democratic Education, all day conference, University of California at Santa Barbara, 18 Jan.

2016 Live interview by RT Television on assassination of Russian ambassador in Turkey and its

implications for geo-political dynamics in the ongoing Middle East conflict, 19 December

2016 Feature interview with me by Mexican daily newspaper Milenio, “William Robinson: ‘La

Izquierda de AL Vive en sus Movimientos Sociales’,” 11 December, can be accessed at

http://www.milenio.com/cultura/dominical/William_Robinson-sociologo_americano-

Global_Capitalism_and_the_Crisis_of_the_Humanity_0_861514111.html

2016 Interviewed by RT Television on the Brazilian political crisis, 15 November.

2016 “Presidential Elections and Social Justice: Whither the University”, convener, organizer, and

moderator of public panel, Multicultural Center, University of California at Santa Barbara, 20

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October.

2016 “El Capitalismo Global y el Proceso de Paz en Colombia,” Seminario Internacional Gramsci,

Bogota, Colombia, 11 October, video-conference from Los Angeles.

2016 Public presentation in Mexico City of America Latina y el Capitalismo Global, published in 2016

by Siglo XXI publishing house, Mexico City. Also, series of print, television, and radio

interviews with diverse Mexican media outlets regarding the release of the book.

2016 Interviewed by World Current Report (Seoul, South Korea), monthly publication of the

International Strategy Center, Seoul National University Institute of Latin American Studies, on

US policy towards Latin America and the crisis of Latin America’s Left parties, 16 August.

2016 Interviewed live by RT Television on popular street protests in Brazil during 2016 Olympics, 12

August.

2016 “Centroamerica ante la Crisis del Capitalismo Global,” closing keynote address, III National

Congress of Sociology, Honduras, National Autonomous University of Honduras, 5 August.

2016 “The Theory of Imperialism,” two-hour presentation, followed by discussion, by invitation of

Political Economy Summer Institute, Seminar on International Political Economy, George Mason

University, 15 June.

2016 “From NAFTA to the trans-Pacific Partnership: Understanding Free Trade Deals,” Opening

keynote, Trinational Conference in Defense of Public Education, Vancouver, 12 May. Also,

“Trends in the Privatization of Higher Education in the United States,” evening plenary

presentation, 13 May.

2016 Moderator/co-organizer and introductory remarks, panel on Immigration, Identities and Injustice,

UCSB Multicultural Center, 28 April.

2016 “Humanity Faces Global Crisis,” speech at “The Next System” teach-in, University of California

at Santa Barbara, 26 April.

2016 One-hour live radio interview on The Gary Null Show, WBAI (New York), on the New York

primary elections, on U.S. foreign policy, and on Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, 18

April.

2016 Half-hour radio interview on The Gary Null Show, WBAI (New York), on the global crisis and

current world affairs, April 15.

2016 Presentation and discussion by invitation with Global Studies Program faculty on my assessment

of the concept of global studies, and its programmatic and curricular content at Lehigh University,

6 April.

2016 Invited university-wide and public lecture: “Global Crisis: A Critical Sociological Perspective on

the Challenge for our Survival,” Lehigh University, 6 April.

2016 Interviewed live on Russia Television (24-hour news service) on President Obama’s trip to Latin

America, March 24.

2016 Closing Keynote, “Global Crisis: Six Urgent Matters for Humanity,” Social Theory Symposium,

Department of Sociology, California State University-Los Angeles, 26 February

2016 Interviewed on Trans-Pacific Partnership trade accord by Venezolana de Television (Venezuelan

television station, affiliate of ABC), 19 February.

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2015 One hour radio interview on global issues, The Rob Kall Bottom-Up Radio Show 1360 AM, 25

November.

2015 “The Global Moment,” keynote address, California Sociological Association, annual congress,

Sacramento, 13 November.

2015 “El Tratado de Libre Comercio de America del Norte en el Marco de la Crisis del Capitalismo

Global,” all day workshop sponsored by the Frente Autentico del Trabajo (FAT – Authentic

Worker’s Front) of Mexico, and the Permanent Workshop on Chicano and Border Studies of the

Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History. Juarez, Mexico, 29 October.

2015 “Reflexiones Sobre el Capitalismo Global,” inaugural keynote address, XV International Congress

on Regional Integration, Borders, and Globalization in the American Continent, Autonomous

University of Juarez, Juarez, Mexico, 28 October.

2015 “Global Crisis and The Future of Humanity,” California State University San Marcos, public

lecture, Arts and Sciences Lecture Series, 21 October.

2015 “Global Capitalism and the Political Economy of Israeli Apartheid,” university-wide public

lecture, Al Quds University, Palestine/West Bank, October 7.

2015 “The Crisis of Global Capitalism and the Future of Liberation in Palestine,” university-wide

public lecture by invitation of the Dean of Research, Bethlehem University, Palestine/West Bank,

October 1.

2015 Convener, organizer and presider, three panels at 2015 Annual Congress of the American

Sociological Association: 1) Race and Ethnicity in the Capitalist World-System I; 2) Race and

Ethnicity in the Capitalist World-System II; 3) Global Class Relations and the New ‘Precariat’.

2015 “Global Capitalism, Crisis, and the North American Free Trade Agreement,” public lecture by

invitation, Department of History and Latin American Studies, University of California at Irvine,

20 May.

2015 “Afro-Colombian Social Movements, Global Capitalism and the Colombian Political Economy,”

speech and meeting with 50 representatives of Afro-Colombian social movements, Cali,

Colombia, 9 May.

2015 Keynote closing speech, “Colombia en el Sistema de Capitalism Global: Desafios y Perspectivas

para la Comunidad Sociologica,” XI National Congress of Sociology Students, Universidad del

Valle, Cali, Colombia, 8 May.

2015 Two-day graduate seminar by invitation, “El Capitalismo Global y su Crisis: Colombia en la

Mira,” Department of Sociology and Economics,” Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, 8-9

May.

2015 Live interview on Pacifica Radio “The Project Censor Show” on global crisis and the current

global conjuncture, April 24.

2015 Keynote closing speech, “Mexico and the Global Crisis: Alternative Scenarios.” XL International

Colloquium on “Reconstructing International Relations,” National Autonomous University of

Mexico, UNAM Center on International Relations, 17 April.

2015 Week-long series of public lectures at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

titled “Reflections on a Theory of Global Capitalism”, jointly sponsored by UNAM’s faculties of

Economics and Political Science, the Permanent Seminary on Border and Chicano Studies of the

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National Institute of Anthropology and History, the Latin American Economic Observatory, and

the Center for Political Economy of the Autonomous University of Puebla, 13-17 April.

2015 Interviewed on Telesur, Latin-America wide television station, on forthcoming the Summit of the

Americas, 6 April.

2015 “The Transnational State and the Crisis of Humanity,” invited lecture, Center for International

Affairs and World Cultures, Northeastern University, March 26.

2015 “Rethinking the Nature, History, and Centrality of the State in International Relations,” paper

presentation and panel discussion, Presidential Roundtable, International Studies Association,

annual congress, New Orleans, 21 February.

2014 “La Crisis Global y La Coyuntura Mexicana a raiz de Ayotzinapa,” all-day workshop with the

Trabajadores Democraticos de Occidente (TRADOC) cooperative, of the Blackstone Tire Factory,

El Salto, state of Jalisco, Mexico, sponsored by Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de

Fronteras/National Institute of History and Anthropology, 17 January.

2014 Panel discussion and Closing Comments, by invitation, workshop on “The Role of Youth and

Students in a Revolutionary Movement,” organized by trade unionists, community and

youth/student activists in Los Angeles, sponsored by Union del Barrio (California), Frente

Indigena Bi-Nacional, and Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras (Mexico,

National Institute of History and Anthropology), 13 December.

2014 “The Future of Political Economy,” Interview in PEWS News, 14(1), Fall.

2014 Interviewed live on “Latin America’s Pink Tide” governmetns on “This Morning”, South Korean

national news radio station, morning news hour program, 4 Deember.

2014 Interviewed by The Independent (Santa Barbara) on Obama’s executive action on immigration, 21

November.

2014 Panel presentation, “Todos Somos Ayotzinapa,” panel presentation and discussion on 43 missing

students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, Multicultural Center, University of California Santa Barbara.

2014 Interviewed by Chronicle of Higher Education on the theoretical work and contributions of Saskia

Sassen, 19 November.

2014 Organizer, presider, and participant of “The Story of Salsa,” two hour panel on the cultural,

historical, social and political meaning of salsa music, Multicultural Center, University of

California Santa Barbara, and organizer and host of dance/concert with “Angel Lebron y su Sabor

Latino,” “An Evening of Salsa” performance following panel, November 6.

2014 “Global Capitalism, NAFTA, and the Crisis of Humanity,” Paper presentation and panel

discussion, “20 Years of the North American Free Trade Agreement Mini-Conference,” California

State University Channel Islands, 24 October.

2014 Public lecture, “Global Crisis: Perspectives from Above and from Below,” Bard College, 6

October

2014 Two days of public lectures on the theory of global capitalism and on the 21st century global

political conjuncture, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, 18-19 September.

2014 Interviewed live on The Michael Slate Show, KPFK Los Angeles, on the topics of academic

freedom and the Israel-Palestine conflict, 29 August.

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2014 One hour radio program, interview on KPFA, Berkeley, on the topics of academic freedom and the

Israel-Palestine conflict. August 25.

2014 Video Interview on the Ted Asregadoo program, TruthOut, “Truthout Inteviews William I.

Robinson on the Israel Lobby Attacking Academic Freedom,” 24 August. http://truth-

out.org/news/item/25767-truthout-interviews-william-i-robinson-on-the-israel-lobby-attacking-

academic-freedom.

2014 One hour live interview on the Kris Welsh show, KPFA Berkeley, on the topics of global

capitalism, Israel-Palestine, crisis, and the BRICS countries. 26 July.

2014 All day workshop with trade unionists and community activists in Los Angeles on the global

economy and the challenge for workers’ struggles among Mexican communities in California,

sponsored by Union del Barrio (California), and Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de

Fronteras (Mexico, National Institute of History and Anthropology), 20 July.

2014 One-hour live radio interview in Spanish with Univision national news service on Israel-Palestine

conflict, 16 July.

2014 Print interview with FARS Iranian News Agency, “Prof. William I. Robinson: Global Capitalism

is in the Midst of its Most Severe Crisis,” 24 June, can be accessed at

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930403001544.

2014 All day workshop given at UCLA Labor Center, “20 Anos del Tratado de Libre Comercio de

America del Norte: El Capitalism Global y la Crisis Actual,” sponsored by the following

community organizations: Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras (Mexico);

El Comité Promotor de la Escuela Sindical Ricardo Flores Magón (Los Angeles, CA); la

Organización Política Unión del Barrio (CA);el Frente de Resistencia en Los Ángeles; el

Colectivo Todo el Poder al Pueblo (Oxnard, CA) y el Frente Indígena de Organizaciones

Binacionales/FIOB (USA-México), 18 May, Los Angeles.

2014 “Global Capitalism” Crisis and Transformation,” University-wide guest lecture, sponsored by

Center for Global Studies and Pennsylvania State University, April 9.

2014 “Global Crisis and the Transnational Social Control State,” paper presentation and panel

discussion, UCSB Global Studies conference, 1 March, Santa Barbara.

2014 One-half hour television interview in Mexico City with Carmen Aristegui, CNN en Espanol, on

global crisis and on release of new Spanish-language edition of A Theory of Global Capitalism, 31

January.

2014 Multiple activities in Mexico City: interviewed by La Jornada (Mexican daily) on global crisis;

lecture at Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History “El Tratado de Libre Comercio

de America del Norte en el Marco del Capitalismo Global y Su Crisis”; participation in tri-national

conference on the 20th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement; participation on

panel presentation for launching of new Spanish-language edition of A Theory of Global

Capitalism (Una Teoria sobre el Capitalismo Global) at Autonomous University of Mexico City,

January 28-Febrary 1.

2014 Interviewed (one hour) by Killradio, LA community radio, on Latin American and immigration

issues, 8 January.

2013 “Towards a Global Police State?,” panel paper presentation, Conference on Power and Justice, co-

sponsored by the Political Economy of the World System (PEWS) and the Development

Sociology sections of the American Sociological Association, 9 August.

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2013 “A Global Social Control State?,” keynote, Global Studies Association, annual meeting, 7-9 June,

Marymount College, Palos Verdes.

2013 “Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity,” invited university-wide lecture, California State

University Los Angeles (CSULA), 17 April.

2013 “Policing the Global Crisis,” keynote address, Political Economy of the World System (PEWS)

conference, 12-13 April, UC-Riverside.

2013 “The Uneven Impacts of the Crisis of Global Capitalism,” paper presentation and panel

discussion, Annual Convention of the International Sociological Association, San Francisco, 3-6

April.

2013 “Humanity has Los a Titan: Interview with William I. Robinson on the Legacy of Hugo Chavez,”

interview with Greek daily newspaper Elefpherotypia, Sunday edition, 24 March. Republished in

English in Upsidedown, on-line news magainze, 25 March.

2013 “’Davos Man’ or ‘Global Capitalist Man’,” paper presentation and panel discussion, Horizons:

2013 Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference,” February 23, Santa Barbara. Also, served as

Presider/Moderator, panel on “Political Control in the Age of Global Capitalism.”

2012 Interviewed live by RT-Television on two topics: 1) the Republican and Democratic National

Conventions, and 2) U.S. democracy promotion programs in Jordan and the Middle East, Nov. 16.

2012 “Critical Thinking in an Age of Crisis,” Bertrand Russell Distinguished Scholar Presentation, by

invitation, The 32nd Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational

Reform, Foundation for Critical Thinking, Berkeley, July 25.

2012 Series of activities at University of Belgrade, May 7-9, at invitation of Faculty of Political

Science. Six-hour workshop with ph.d. students on “Global Crisis and the Balkans”; Opening

lecture (“Reflections on the Global Crisis and the Transnational State”) and debate, for 3-hour

Roundtable with faculty on “The Transnational State in Comparative Perspective,” Series of

interviews with Serbian television, radio, and newspapers.

2012 Public lecture, “Promoting Polyarchy: 20 Years Later,” at National Library of Serbia, Belgrade,

for launching of Serbian edition of Promoting Polyarchy, published by “Filip Vichnich Publishing

House”, May 9/

2012 Interview on U.S.-Iranian relations, Iranian News Agency, 2 May.

2012 “Crisis Global y Rebelion Popular: Reflexiones para Debate,” university-wide & public lecture,

inaugural panel presentation, conference on “Jornada de Reflexion Economica ‘Padre Francisco

Javier Ibisate’: Analsis Critico del Entorno Economico Mundial,” Central American University,

San Salvador, 25 April.

2012 “Brazil in the International System,” public lecture by invitation,, 9th Annual Santa Barbara

Brazilian Carnival, March 29. Faulkner Gallery.

2012 “Promoting Polyarchy – 20 Years Later,” Opening Panel Keynote, Democracy Promotion and

World Order conference, EU European Research Council, University of Aberystwyth, Wales, UK,

15 March.

2012 “Systemic Crisis: 2008 in Context”, presentation and panel discussion, opening plenary, Global

Crisis Conference, UCSB, 24 February.

2012 “The Globalization of Israeli and The War of Legitimacy,” co-panelist, “The Irvine 11 Case: The

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Assault on Student Activism”, Multicultural Center, UCSB, February 14.

2012 “Placing Immigration and Women in Global Context,” presentation and panel discussion, “A

Feminist Issue: The Economics of Immigration,” public forum organized by Santa Barbara

Women’s Political Committee, 25 January.

2012 “The ‘Big Picture’: Six Theses on the Arab Spring,” presentation and panel discussion, “Taking it

to the Streets,” public and university-wide event organized by Multicultural Center, UCSB, 24

January.

2011 “Interview: Dr. William I. Robinson on Power, Domination and Conflicts in Mexico,” Interview

published by UpSide Down World on December 11, http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-

archives-79/2811-interview-dr-william-i-robinson-on-power-domination-and-conflicts-in-mexico.

2011 “Global Crisis: Immigration, Drug Trafficking, and Financial Meltdown,” Presidential Lecture

Series, University of Montana, by invitation of the Office of the President, Dec. 1.

2011 Interviewed by Univision Spanish language television station on California Dream Act, 11

October, Santa Barbara.

2011 Keynote speech, “Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity,” International Conference on

“Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Formation,” jointly sponsored by the Global Studies

Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Global Studies Association North American

branch, and the globalization research unit of the International Studies Association, September 16-

19, Prague.

2011 Two panel activities at American Sociological Association, 106th Annual Meeting: 1) paper

presentation and panel discussion, “Globalization and the Sociology of Immanuel Wallerstein: A

Critical Appraisal”; 2) discussant on panel on “Globalization: Critical Debates,” August 20-23,

Las Vegas, NV.

2011 “El Salvador y la Crisis del Capitalismo Global,” all day workshop, sponsored by FMLN-Sur de

California. Los Angeles Worker Center, 23 July.

2011 Interviewed live by Worldstreams radio, one-hour, June 8.

2011 “Social Justice, Immigrant Rights, and The Specter of 21st Century Fascism,” paper presentation,

conference on :Social Justice and the University,” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 29-

May1.

2011 “The Crisis of Global Capitalism and Immigrant Rights,” one of two keynotes, conference on

“Mobilizing Immigrants in the U.S.: Political Rights, Global Capitalism and the State,” University

of Florida, Center for Latin American Studies, April 15.

2011 “The Challenge of the Student Movement in the Face of Global Crisis,” invited inaugural address,

Union Salvadoreña de Estudiantes Universitarios (USEU), Annual Congress, Santa Barbara,, 9

April.

2011 “Neo-Fascism, Globalization, and Immigration,” paper presentation and panel discussion, 2011

Congress of the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies (NACCS), Pasadena, 29

March-2 April.

2011 “Viene una Crisis Mucho Mas Grave,” Interview with Diario Presente, Villahermosa, Mexico., 6

March

2011 “El Salvador y Centroamerica en el Sistema Global del Siglo XXI,” 3-day mini-course, Central

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American University, San Salvador, March 14-16.

2011 “El Papel de Mexico en el Sistema Capitalista Global,” public lecture, Faculty of Philosophy,

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), March 3.

2011 “Mexico en la Crisis Global,” two-day public lecture/workshop sponsored by “Frente Sindical,

Campesino, Indigena, Social y Popular,” Villahermosa, Tabasco State, Mexico, Feb. 28-March 1.

2011 Interviewed by KPFK radio station (Los Angeles) on the 12th anniversary of the Venezuelan

Revolution (Feb. 2).

2010 “Power, Domination, and Conflict in Mexico,” interviewed by UpsideDownWorld (on-line new

and analysis, www.upsidedownworld.org, published on Dec. 7.

(http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/2811-interview-dr-william-i-robinson-on-

power-domination-and-conflicts-in-mexico)

2010 Interviewed by Univision, Spanish language television, on debate on Dream Act in U.S. Congress,

December 9.

2010 “Democracia y Soberanía Frente a la Crisis del Capitalismo Global: Desafíos para la Revolución

Bolivariana,” paper presentation and discusión, seminar, “Analysis del Proceso Democrático

Venezolano,” sponsored by the Venezuelan Mission to the United Nations, New York, 3-5

December.

2010 “The Transnationalizacion of Class Relations in Latin America: Comparative Perspectives,” paper

presentation and plenary discussion, conference on ‘Urban Classes and Politics in the Neo-Liberal

Era: Turkey in Comparative Perspective,’ Bozazici University, Istanbul, 22 October.

2010 “The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Perspectives for Turkey,” Distinguished Scholar Lecture, Koch

University, Istanbul, 21 October.

2010 Panel presentation and discussion, “The End of Ideology? Global Capitalism, The transnational

Agenda, and the Green Movement,” Iran Ideology Conference, UCLA, 9 October.

2010 Closing keynote address, “Crisis Global y Futuros Incierto de America Latina y Mexico,” annual

congress of the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia (National School of Anthropology), Mexico

City, 25 September.

2010 Speaking tour through southern Mexico on the global crisis and its impact on Mexico. Public

lectures and workshops in: Tlaxiaco (state of Oaxaca), organized by Frente Democratico Mixteco

community organization; San Cristobal de las Casas (state of Chiapas), hosted by the Centro

Indigena de Capacitacion Integral (CIDECI)-Universidad de la Tierra; Merida (state of Yucatan)

hosted by the Department of Economics of the Autonomous University of Yucatan; Villahermosa

(state of Tabasco), organized by the petroleum workers union; and Mexico City, organized by the

Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras of the Mexican National Institute of

Anthropology. 9-26 September.

2010 “La Crisis Mundial y el Capitalismo Global,” interview published in Voces, weekly news

magazine, El Salvador, No. 14, 30 April - 6 May: 1, 6-7.

2010 “Israeli Apartheid and Academic Freedom,” public lecture, University of California-Irvine,

sponsored by Muslin Student Union, 12 May.

2010 Hour-long phone interview on global crises and alternatives with Radio Nacional de Venezuela, 7

May.

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2010 Three speeches at Foro Social Tematico Mexicano/World Social Forum, 2-4 May, Mexico City.

Plenary session speech: “Constructing an Alternative Economic Model to Neo-Liberalism”.

Presentations in break out panels: “”Mexico-US Social Bridges: The Crystal Border”; “La

Crisis?: Oportunidad para Cambiar el Sistema Global?”

2010 “The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Analytical Notes and Theoretical Debates,” invited lecture,

Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, April 7.

2010 “La Crisis de la Globalizacion y el Neoliberalismo y su Impacto en America Latina,” week-long

seminar, National University of El Salvador, San Salvador, Post-Graduate Studies unit, 15-19

March.

2010 “Undocumented Students and the Immigrant Rights Movement,” talk before IDEAS (Improving

Dreams, Equality, Access, and Success) undocumented students association, University of

Californa, Santa Barbara, February 17.

2010 “The Systemic Crisis of Global Capitalism”, and “Critical Debates in Globalization Studies,” two

university-wide lectures by invitation, Florida International University, February 11 and 12.

2010 “The V International: An Assessment.” address before the congress of the Union Salvadoreña de

Estudiantes Universitarios (USEU), Santa Barbara. Jan. 30.

2010 “The Pink Tide in Latin America and the Global Conjuncture,” keynote address, Pink Tide

Conference, Nottingham University, 22-24 January.

2009 “Taller de Analisis y Discusion sobre la Crisis del Capitalismo Global,” gave 3-day, 18 hour

workshop, also aired live on three radio stations, sponsored by the National Institiute of

Anthropology and History (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia y Historia) of Mexico, Seminario

Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras, Mexico City, 24-24 September.

2009 “Crisis of Global Capitalism: Contextualizing the Oromo Struggle,” keynote address, 23rd Annual

Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Atlanta, 1-2 August.

2009 “Global Capitalism Theory and the Emergence of Transnational Elites,” presentation and panel

discussion, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economic Research

(WIDER), Conference on the Role of Elites in Economic Development, 12-13 June, Helsinki,

Finland

2009 Speech, “Remarks for Seventh Annual International Al-Awda Convention, the Palestine Right to

Return Coalition,” Garden Grove, California, May 23.

2009 “The Immigrant Rights Struggle in the Obama Era,” co-organizer and presentation, symposium

“Immigrant Rights: Which Way in the Obama Era?,” multiple campus sponsors, University of

California at Santa Barbara, 23 April.

2009 Interviewed by Univision, Spanish-language television station, on immigrant rights in Central

California, 22 April.

2009 “Challenges for Immigrant Rights in 2009,” Panelist, Community Forum on Immigrant Rights,

City of Santa Maria, California, 22 April.

2009 “The Venezuelan Revolution and the Global Conjuncture: Lessons for Latin America and

Beyond,” paper presentation and participation in panel, “The Impact of the Venezuelan

Revolution,” Left Forum Conference, New York City, 19 April.

2009 “Obama Policy Towards Latin America,” panelist in Roundtable on U.S. policy towards Latin

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America in the Obama Era, Left Forum Conference, New York City, 18 April.

2009 “Venezuelan Revolution and Global Conjuncture,” presentation by invitation, symposium on

“Radical Politics in the Caribbean,” University of California at Santa Barbara, April 9.

2009 “The Structural Crisis of Global Capitalism,” lecture by invitation at the Czech Academy of

Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, 23 March.

2009 “Latin America in the Global System,” lecture at Charles University, Department of Sociology

and Philosophy, 19 March, Prague, Czech Republic.

2009 Presentacion, “Retos del Movimiento Inmigrante ante la Crisis Global y la Nueva Coyuntura

Politica 2009,” conference “La Izquierda Mexicana en Los Estados Unidos y las Nuevas

Relaciones Bilaterales,” hosted by the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (Grupo

Parlamentario/Camara de Diputados), Zacatecas, Mexico, 27 February-1 March.

2009 Invited “Inaugural Lecture” for 2009 academic year, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencas

Sociales (FLACSO), Guatemala branch, February 9, and guest workshop for FLACSO graduate

students, “Capitalismo Global y America Latina,” February 10.

2009 Colloquium presentation, “The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Cyclical, Structural, or Systemic?,”

Department of Sociology, University of California-Santa Barbara, 28 January.

2009 Interviewed live for nightly newscast by Univision (local California affiliate) on Obama

Inauguration and Immigrant Rights, 23 Jan.

2009 Invited Presentation, “Global Crisis and Alternative Futures,” Symposium: Financial Crisis and

Globalization, Institute for Global Cooperation and Conflict (IGCC), University of California at

Riverside, 13 January.

2008 Presentation, “La Promocion de la Anti-Democracia,” international conference “Revolucion e

Intervencion en America Latina,” co-sponsored by Telesur, Patria Grande, and Minstry of

Communications and Information (MINCI), Caracas, Venezuela, 15 November.

2008 Co-organizer, and presenter, international conference at University of El Salvador, “Encrucijada

Electoral en America Latina: Una Vision de Academicos Norteamericanos,” San Salvador, 25-26

September. Paper presented: “Encrucijada en America Latina y Crisis Global: Los Procesesos

Electorales Norteamericanos y Salvadoreños”.

2008 “Elecciones Norteamericanos y Salvadoreños en el marco de la Coyuntura Mundial,” presentacion

en foro “Procesos Electorales en Estados Unidos y El Salvador, 2008,” Central American

University, San Salvador, 24 September.

2008 “Elecciones en EEUU y Perspectivas para America Latina,” public lecture, at invitation of Polo

Democratico Alternativo, party headquarters, Bogota, Colombia, 4 September.

2008 “Crisis Global y Economia Politica Latinoamerica,” invited conference address, X Congress of

Economists of Latin America and the Caribbean, Bogota, Colombia, 3 September.

2008 “Economia Politica Latinoamericana: Nuevos Rumbos y Desafios,” public lecture by invitation,

Universidad Central de Colombia, Bogota, 2 September.

2008 “U.S. Latinos and Latin American Integration: Intellectual and Strategic Challenges,” conference

presentation, conference on “U.S. Latin@s and Latin American Integration: Challenges and

Opportunities for the 21st Century,” University of California at Los Angeles, 27 June.

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2008 “El Proceso Electoral Norteamericano: 15 Puntos de Analsis y Debate,” presentation and panel

discussion, Mesa de Reflexion Sobre Relaciones Internacionales y Politica Exterior

Estadounidense,” Instituto de Altos Estudios Diplomaticos, Caracas, Venezuela, 17-19 June.

2008 “The Follies of ‘New Imperialism’ Theories,” keynote presentation, Global Studies Association,

annual conference, New York City, 7 June.

2008 “Democracy and Global Crisis,” invited speaker, “Democracy Dinner,” Center for the Study of

Democracy, University of California-Irvine, April 10.

2008 “Labor and the Global System,” public lecture sponsored by the Labor Studies Program,

University of California-Irvine, April 9.

2008 Three weeks of public lectures, workshops, and other engagements in Colombia. March 3-7,

Medellin, “La Globalizacion, Procesos Sociales, y Medio Ambiente: El Caso de Colombia,” 20

hour intensive workshop for 100 staff and board members of Penca de Sabila, a Colombian

national Non-Governmental Organization addressing environmental and social issues. March 10-

14, Bogota, “El Capitalismo Global y America Latina: Colombia en la Mira,” 20 hour public

lecture series, Universidad Central de Colombia, sponsored by departments of Economics and

International Relations. March 15-16, talks given at invitation of indigenous groups and social

organizations, Popayan (March 15) and Silvia (March 16), province of El Cauca, western

Colombia.

2008 “Crisis Global y America Latina: El Salvador en la Mira,” university-wide lecture, University of

El Salvador, San Salvador, 21 february.

2008 “El Salvador y la Crisis del Capitalismo Global,” university-wide and public lecture, sponsored by

Department of Economy, Central American University, San Salvador, and Frederick Ebert

Foundation, Germany, 19 February.

2008: Seminar/lecture series, “Capitalismo Global y America Latina: Crisis y Desafios”, Universidad

Centroamericana “Jose Simeon Cañas,”, San Salvador, 18-22 February.

2008: Invited lecture, “The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Can Humanity Survive It,” Chulalongkorn

University, Bangkok, 23 January.

2008: Centennial Lecture Series, “Trends in Global Capitalism,” University of the Philippines, Manila,

8-18 January. Two weeks of public, university-wide lectures as visiting professor on occasion of

the 100th anniversary of the University of the Philippines, jointly sponsored by the Department of

Sociology and Focus on the Global South.

2008: One dozen public lectures and talks given during 3-week stay in the Philippines, Jan. 4-28, at

numerous academic, NGO and public venues, including (among others) guest lectures at Miriam

University, Ateneo de Manila University, Center for Democratic Projects, Transform Asia

Institute.

2007 Invited to give opening lecture for screening of documentary “Assaulted Dream”, about

immigrants from Central America in Mexico, UCSB Multicultural Center, Nov. 7.

2007 Interviewed by Univision, Canifornia Central Coast local Spanish television language station, on

recent immigrant legislation in United States, Nov. 6, Santa Barbara.

2007 Panel presentation and discussion, “Empire and Dissent: Latin America and the New World

Order,” Latin American Studies Association, 27th International Congress, Montreal, 5-8

September.

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2007 “Lucha Indigena Colombiana,” speech to indigenous assembly of the Regional Indigenous

Council of Colombia, El Cauca, Colombia, 29 August.

2007 “La Mundializacion de las Luchas de Resistencia: Crisis y Futuras Alternativas,” keynote speech

to 6th Annual Congress of the Cooperativa Financiera (CONFIAR), Medellin, Colombia, 24

August.

2007 “Democracia e Imperio: la Estrategia Norteamericana hacia Colombia,” workshop given at the

party headquarters of the Polo Democratico Alternativo, Bogota, Colombia, 23 August.

2007 “Democracia e Intervencion en las Americas: Colombia en la Mira,” public lecture, Universidad

Central de Colombia, Bogota, 22 August.

2007 “Global Labor Pools and Immigrant Rights,” presentation and panel discussion, conference on

“Labor, Immigration, and Globalization,” University of California at Riverside, 12 May.

2007 “Conmemorando el Quinto Aniversario del Golpe en Venezuela: El Significado de la Revolucion

Bolivariana,” keynote speech, public meeting to commemorate 5th anniversary of coup d’etat in

Venezuela, Los Angeles Workers Center/Cine Latinoamericano Roque Dalton, 1 Abril.

2007 “Sistema Global, Crisis Global, y Politica Exterior Norteamericana,” two-week course, Instituto

de Altos Estudios Diplomaticos Pedro Gual (Institute for Superior Diplomatic Studies Pedro

Gual), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Caracas, Feb. 5-15.

2007 “De Bush a Bush: Globalization, Crisis, y la Political Exterior de Estados Unidos hacia America

Latina,” public address, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Caracas, 7 Feb.

2007 “Globalization and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights,” keynote address, Immigrant Rights

Conference, March 25 Coalition, Los Angeles, Loyola Law School, Feb. 3.

2007 “Whither Global Capitalism? The Rise and the Coming Demise of Neo-Liberalism,” Lecture, The

Humanities Center, Carnegie Mellon University, 25 January.

2007 Interviewed by WBAI (New York) on IMF policies towards Latin America, 13 January.

2006 Media activity, 26 October:: 1) interviewed by O Globo, Brazilian daily newspaper, on

Nicaraguan electoral process; 2) interviewed by Univision, Spanish-language television station,

on U.S. government immigration policy.

2006 “The Immigrant Rights Struggle: Ten Points for Analysis and Discussion,” public presentation in

forum “Immigration: Where are we Going? Local and National Updates,” Alliance for Immigrant

Rights/Casa de la Raza, Santa Barbara, October 9.

2006 Multiple professional activities in Costa Rica, September 5-26: 1) One week intensive course (15

hours, 11-15 Sept.) for Masters Program in Political Science, University of Costa Rica (San Jose),

titled “Globalizacion en Centroamerica: Crisis y Transformacion”; 2) Public Lecture, 11 Sept,

University of Costa Rica, titled “America Latin y Sociedad Global” 3) One week intensive course

(15 hours, 18-22 Sept.), Masters Program in International Relations, National University of Costa

Rica (Heredia), titled “America Latina y Crisis Global: Perspectivas y Desafios para

Centroamerica”; 4) Radio Interview (21 Sept), “Radio Nacional”, Costa Rican public radio station;

5) presentation and intensive roundtable discussion, workshop on “Entre la Acumulacion y la

Resistencia: Bosquejando las Nuevas Geografias de Centroamerica,” 23-24 September, organized

by PRISMA/Central American University-San Salvador campus and sponsored by Ford

Foundation.

2006 Multiple participation in 2006 annual congress of the American Sociological Association, 11-14

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August, Montreal, including: “Beyond the Theory of Imperialism: Global Capitalism and the

Transnational State, paper presentation and panel discussion; “The Chimera of Democracy and

Socioeconomic Development under Neo-Liberal Global Capitalism,” paper presentation and panel

discussion; organizer of two panels on Sociology of Globalization.

2006 Keynote Speech, “Globalization, Imperialism, and Resistance: Concepts for the 21st Century?,”

conference on “Globalization, Imperialism, and Resistance,” University of Stockholm, Sweden,

12-13 May.

2006 Interviewed by FM Radio KCVX, San Luis Obispo, on immigrant rights and related themes, May

9.

2006 Interviewed on “The Paul Berenson Show,” News Radio 990 KTMS, Santa Barbara, on immigrant

rights. May 6.

2006 Interviewed four times during May 1 live from Los Angeles by Radio Payumat and Radio

Indimedia Colombia, Putumayo and Bogota, Colombia, May 1.

2006 Interviewed by Radio Nacional de España on theme of immigrant protests in the United States.

May 1.

2006 Interviewed by Santa Barbara studios of UNIVISION Spanish-language television on theme of

immigrant rights in the United States. April 27.

2006 “Crisis and Transformation in the Global System,” invited presentation and discussion, workshop

“Finance, Industry and Power: The Capitalist Corporation in the 21st Century,” York University,

Toronto, 11 April.

2006 “Democracy, Polyarchy, and U.S. Policy Towards Latin America,” Keynote address by invitation,

conference “In the Name of Democracy: U.S. Electoral Intervention in the Americas,” Yale

University, April 7-8.

2006 “Globalizacion y Transnacionalismo: Problemas Tendencias, y Perspectivas en la Politica Exterior

Norteamericana Hacia America Latina,” paper presentation and panel discussion, Latin American

Studies Association (LASA) Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 15-18 March.

2006 Interviewed (on U.S.-Latin America relations) by 93.3 CFMU FM, in Toronto, “Unusual

Sources,” weekly program. February 14.

2006 “Los Desafios Latinoamericanos Frente a La Crisis del Capitalismo Global,” Lecture, Facultad

Latinoamericana de Ciencas Sociales (FLACSO), sede Ecuador, Quito, February 2.

2006 “La Crisis de la Globalizacion y la Coyuntura Latinoamericana, 2006,” invited lecture,

Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Quito, Ecuador, February 1.

2006 “Politica Exterior Norteamerica Hacia America Latina, Analisis de Coyuntura,” Lecture and

discussion by special invitation, “Mesa de Reflexion Sobre Relaciones Internacionlaes y Politica

Exterior,” Institute for Higher Diplomatic Studies (Institution de Altos Estudios Diplomaticos

‘Pedro Gual’), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Caracas, Venezuela, January 28.

2006 Participation (presentations and panel discussions) in multiple panels, World Social Forum,

Caracas, Venezuela. January 24, panel on “The Struggle for Social Justice in Haiti”. January 27,

panel on “Meeting of Sociologists of the Americas: Sociologos Sin Fronteras”. January 28, panel

on “In the Name of Democracy: Political Intervention in the 2006 Latin America Electoral Cycle.”

2005 “Toward New Social Cartographies in Development and Trade Studies,” plenary presentation and

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discussion, conference on “NAFTA and Beyond: Alternative Disciplinary Perspectives in the

Study of Global Trade and Development,” Princeton University, December 2-3.

2005 “Crisis in the Global System,” university-wide invited lecture, Texas A&M, November 11.

2005 “Globalization and Global Crisis,” university-wide invited lecture, Bucknell Univeristy,

November 1.

2005 “Reigning in on Corporate Power: The NAFTA, the CAFTA, and the Corporate Agenda,” public

lecture, Falkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Library, Main Branch, 26 July.

2005 Interviewed by on-line news and analysis journal, Venezuelanalysis: Venezuela Views, News, and

Analysis. Interview posted at http://www.venezuelanalysis.com in June 2005.

2005 “Altering the Course of Globalization,” public lecture, “Forum and Town Hall Meeting: The

Impact of Corporate Globalization,” Falkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, Main Branch,

June 9.

2005 Interviewed by Newsday on U.S. involvement in Venezuela. Interview published in May 1 issue

and available from n http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-

wovene034241232may01,0,4533593.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines.

2005 “The Crisis of Global Capitalism and the Folly of Conventional Thinking on It”, paper

presentation and discussion, 29th Conference of the Political Economy of the World System

(PEWS) Section of the American Sociological Association, University of Massachusetts,

Amherst, April 14-17.

2005 “Marxism, the Crisis of Global Capitalism, and the Folly of Conventional Marxist Thinking on it,”

and “Public Sociologies and Critical Globalization Studies: Six Theses,” two panel presentations

and discussions, International Studies Association, Annual Congress, March 1-5, Honolulu.

2005 “The Global System and Resistance and Transformation in Latin America,” presentation and

discussion, conference on “Homelands, Borders and Trade In Latin America: Freedom, Violence,

And Exchange After 9-11”, Center For Iberian And Latin American Studies (CILAS), University

of California-San Diego, Feb. 24-25.

2005 “The Crisis of Global Capitalism: 21st Century Challenges,” university-wide invited lecture,

University of California, Riverside, January 19.

2004 Interviewed by The NewStandard on Iraqi elections and U.S. involvement. Interview published

on Dec. 13 in article titled “Controversial U.S. Groups Operate Behind Scenes in Iraq Vote,”

available from http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=1311.

2004 “Latin America and the Crisis of Global Capitalism: Challenges, Opportunities, Hazards,” first

Annual Lecture, Society for Lati n American Studies, London, October 29.

2004 “Neo-Liberalism and Global Crisis: Opportunities, Challenges, and Hazards,” keynote address,

conference, “Neo-Liberalism: Historical Perspectives and Critical Possibilities,” Princeton

University, 15 October.

2004 “Critical Reflections on Global Society,” keynote address, Illinois Sociological Association,

Annual Congress, Chicago, 14 October.

2004 “Latin America in the Global System: Crisis and Change,” paper presentation and panel

discussion, and Discussant for panel on “Latin America in the Changing International Political

Economy,” Latin American Studies Association, Congress, Las Vegas, 6-9 October.

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2004 “Nuevas Modalidades de Intervencion Norteamericana en el Marco de la Globalizacion: La

‘Promocion de la Democracia’ y el Caso de Venezuela,” presentation and audience discussion,

Conference on “Como Nos Ven? Venezuela en La Academia Anglo-Sajona,” Facultad de

Economia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, 5 August.

2004 “Los Desafios del Siglo XXI: Globalizacion y Crisis,” Public Lecture, sponsored by Facultad de

Ciencias Economicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 5 July.

2004 “Debate sobre Globalizacion y Coyuntura Mundial,” Public Lecture, sponsored by Postgraduate

Program, Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3 July.

2004 “Capitalismo Global y Crisis Global: Respuestas Teoricas y Politicas,” public lecture sponsored

by the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales and the Programa de Estudios Sobre Democracia y

Transformacion Global, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, 9 June.

2004 Visiting Professor, Instituto de Asuntos Publicos, Universidad de Chile, May/June, lecture series

on “Las Relaciones Internacionales y las Teorias de la Globalizacion,” Santiago, Chile.

2004 “What Empire? Whose Hegemony? The Transnationalization of Capital and the Gramscian

Critique of ‘Statolatry’,” paper presentation and panel discussion, International Studies

Association annual convention, Montreal, March 16-21.

2004 “Perspectives on Recent U.S. Foreign Policy and Democracy,” radio interview on KZYX and

KZYZ, Medocino County, California, Feb. 7.

2003 The Contribution of Latino Immigrants to the California Economy, Television Interview,

UNIVISION Spanish language television network, Dec. 10.

2003 “Gramsci and Globalization: From Nation-State to Transnational Hegemony,” paper presented by

invitation and plenary discussion, workshop on “Images of Gramsci: Connections and Contentions

in Political Theory and International Relations, Oct. 24-25, University of Nottingham, UK.

2003 Lecture by invitation, Moscow Linguistic Institute, “Globalization: The Latest State of Capitalism,

From Lenin to Bush,” Moscow, Oct. 20.

2003 Presentation and discussion, “Social Activism and Democracy in South Africa: A Global

Perspective,” IDASA (Institute for Democracy in South Africa), conference on “Social Activism

and Socio-Economic Rights: Deepening Democracy in South Africa,” Cape Town, Aug. 11-13.

2003 Multiple participation and presentations in plenaries and panels, conference on “Towards Critical

Globalization Studies: Continued Debates, New Directions, and Neglected Topics”, UCSB/Global

Studies Association, May 1-4.

2003 “Global Capitalism, Global Crisis,” university-wide lecture, by invitation, Agnes Scott College,

Decatur, Georgia, March 19.

2003 “Latin America in the Empire of Global Capital,” paper presentation and plenary discussion,

conference on “Labor, Race and Empire,” University of California-Irvine, UCI Labor Studies

Program, March 6-7, 2003.

2003 Public lecture and panel discussion, “The Collapse of Neo-Liberalism and Political-Economic

Crisis in Latin America,” “South America Forum,” University of California at Santa Barbara,

public forum organized by Honor y Orgullo Latinoamericano student forum.

2002 Week-long series of lectures on globalization, world political economy, transnational processes in

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Latin America, and U.S. foreign policy, University of Havana, Cuba, November 3-7. Lecture

series included paper presentation, “La Crisis Global y la Politica Exterior Norteamericana hacia

American Latinoamerica, and panel discussion, conference on “Hemispheric Relations After

September 11,” November 4, Center for the Study of the United States and Center for the Study of

the Americas.

2002 “Globalization and Resistance: Views from Above and Views From Below,” Center for Historical

and Social Change, Historical Perspectives Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay,

invited speech, October 7.

2002 “The Crisis of Global Capitalism: How it Looks from Latin America,” paper presentation and

panel discussion, annual international economics conference, Middle Eastern Technical

University, Ankara, Turkey, September 9-11.

2002 “Remapping Development in Light of Globalization: From a Territorial to a Social Cartography,”

and “Global Capitalism and Transnational Capitalist Hegemony,” papers presented and panel

discussion, American Sociological Association annual conference, August 16-19, Chicago.

2002 "In the Aftermath of War and Pacification: Globalization and Social Change in 21st Century

Central America," public lecture sponsored by Latin American and Iberian Studies program,

University of California-Santa Barbara.

2002 “The Ongoing Debate on Transnational Class and State Formation,” paper presentation and panel

discussion, Global Studies Association conference, Chicago, May 10-12.

2002 “Global Capitalism and Transnational Hegemony,” paper presentation and panel discussion, and

discussant on panel on globalization and resistance, Political Economy of the World-System,

annual conference, Riverside, May 2-4.

2002 Multiple participation in 43rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New

Orleans, March 24-27: 1) “Globalization and Development Theory in the Neo-Liberal Age,”

paper presentation and panel discussion; 2) panel participant, “Roundtable on Historicising

Globalization: The Question of the Political”; 3) discussant, panel on “The World System,

Historical Materialism, and Gramsci: Revisiting the Agency-Structure Problematique”; 4)

discussant, panel on “Globalization and the Politics of Protest.”

2002 “The Crisis of Global Capitalism: How it Looks from Latin America,” paper presented and session

discussion, “Seminar on the Global Crisis,” Transnational Institute, February 17-18. Amsterdam

2001 Panelist/participant in seminar, “Rethinking Central American Modernization in the Age of

Globalization,” Social Science Research Council, New York, October 28.

2001 “The Debate on Globalization, the Transnational Capitalist Class, and the Rise of a Transnational

State,” paper presentation and panel discussion, American Sociological Association, 96th Annual

Meeting, Los Angeles, August 18-21.

2001 “Transnational State Formation,” paper presentation and panel discussion, special meeting of the

International Studies Association (US) and international studies associations from Hong Kong,

Japan, and other countries, Hong Kong, July 23-25.

2001 “Globalizacion y Desigualdades Mundiales,” three-week seminar taught to graduate students,

Masters Program in International Relations, Central American University, Managua, Nicaragua,

June 23-July 15.

2001 “Globalization and Development,” presentation and discussion, conference on “Latin American

Sociology and the Sociology of Latin America,” Center for Latin American Studies, University of

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Florida-Gainesville, April 19-21.

2001 “Promoting Polyarchy: Changing Modes of Social Control in Latin America,” presentation by

special invitation and panel discussion, conference on “The United States and Latin America after

the Cold War/Estados Unidos y America Latina Despues de la Guerra Fria,” Center for

Intercultural Dialogue on Development and NACLA, Cuernavaca, Mexico, April 6-8.

2001 “The Global Economy and 21st Century Politics and Social Struggles,” guest lecture by special

invitation, “Forum on the Future of Politics: Globalization,” Northern Arizona University, March

28.

2001 “Alternative Futures in Global Society,” presentation, International Roundtable of Unions, Social

Movements, and NGOs, Bangkok, Thailand, March 11-13, co-sponsored by Focus on the Global

South and the Friedrich-Ebert -Stiftung Foundation.

2001 “Maldevelopment: Globalization and Social Change in Central America,” presentation, Center for

Latin American Studies 2001 Colloquia Series, New Mexico State University, February 28.

2001 “Transnational Processes and Changing Social Hierarchies in the World System: A Central

American Case Study,” and “Globalization as a Macro-Structural-Historical Framework of

Analysis: The Case of Central America,” papers presented and panel discussion, International

Studies Association, 42nd Annual Convention, Chicago, February 21 and 22. Discussant, panel

on “Global Capital - global Labour? New Challenges and Strategies of Internationalism and

Global Solidarity,” February 22.

2000 “Globalization and Resistance: Views from Above and Views From Below,” guest lecture by

special invitation of Croft Institute for International Studies, University of Mississippi, Oxford

(Miss.), November 16

2000 “The Emerging Global Society,” guest lecture by special invitation, delivered at Metropolitan

State College, Denver, November 2.

2000 “Social Theory and Globalization: The Rise of a Transnational State,” paper presented and panel

discussion, American Sociological Association, 95th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August

13.

2000 “Defining National Interests in the Age of ‘Stateless” Capital,” keynote address, conference on

“Globalization and U.S. Foreign Policy,” American Friends Service Committee, Cambridge,

Mass., May 6.

2000 “Global Democracy” and “Analysis of a Transnational State Apparatus,” papers presented and

panel discussion (two panels), International Studies Association, 41st Annual Convention, Los

Angeles, March 14 and 15.

2000 “Sociologia de las Desigualdades Globales,” two-week intensive post-graduate seminar taught, as

visiting professor, Central American University, Managua, Nicaragua. February 26-March 3.

1999 “Central America and Global Capitalism: Regional Lessons for the Sociology of Development,”

paper presented and panel discussion, American Sociological Association, 94th Annual Meeting,

Chicago, August 7; “ and discussant for session on “Cross-Cultural/Comparative Sociology:

Comparative Studies Encounter a Global Economy,” August 10.

1999 “Twenty Years Later: Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution,” Radio Interview, KGNY,

Boulder Couny Public Radio, 19 July.

1999 “La Globalizacion y Su Incidencia en la Sociedad Centroamericana y la Gobernabilidad,” Keynote

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Address, conference on “Globalizacion, Gobernabilidad, y Desarrollo,” Iberoamerican University

for Science and Technology/Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Managua, Nicaragua, May 6.

1999 “Globalizacion y la Transformacion de Centroamerica,” lecture given by invitation of Facultad

Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Guatemala branch, Guatemala City, May 3.

1999 “Globalization and the Rise of a Transnational State,” lecture, Institute of Public Policy, De

Montfort University, Leicester, England, April 14.

1999 “Capitalist Globalization and the Transnationalization of the State,” paper presented and panel

discussion, Transatlantic Workshop on Globalization and Historical Materialism, University of

Warwick, England, April 15-17.

1999 “Globalization and Development,” lecture, Center for Migration and Development, Princeton

University, March 11.

1999 “The Nigerian Elections in International Perspective,” radio interview, Pacifica News Service,

February 23.

1998 “Global Capitalism and the U.S. Promotion of Polyarchy in Latin America,” and “Central

America in the Global System,” papers presented and panel discussion, Latin American Studies

Association, (LASA) Congress, Chicago, Sept. 23-26.

1998 "Neo-Liberalism, The Global Elite, and the Guatemalan Transition: A Critical Macrostructural

Analysis," paper presented (in Spanish) and panel discussion, conference on "Guatemalan

Development and Democratization: Proactive Responses to Globalization," sponsored by National

Science Foundation, UNICEP and UNDP (United Nations), Universidad del Valle (Guatemala),

and Johns Hopkins University (US), Guatemala City, March 26-28.

1998 "La globalization, el nuevo model de desarrollo en Centroamerica y sus perspectivas," keynote

address, conference on "La Globalizacion y los Factores de Riesgo en Nicaragua," sponsored by

Fundacion Millennium and Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Nicaragua), Managua,

Nicaragua, March 23.

1998 "La economia global y los procesos transnacionales en Centroamerica," talk given by invitation of

the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Costa Rican chapter), San Jose, 24 March.

1997 "Latin America and the United States: The Challenge of the Twenty-First Century," university-

Wide and public lecture, University of Tennessee, College of Arts and Sciences, Knoxville,

November 24.

1997 "Beyond Nation-State Paradigms: Globalization, Sociology, and the Challenge of Transnational

Studies," paper presented and panel discussion, American Sociological Association (ASA) 92nd

Annual Meeting, Toronto, August 9-13.

1997 "Centroamerica ante la Globalizacion y las Responsabilidades de los Intelectuales," university-

wide address, Central American University, Managua, Nicaragua, June 26.

1997 "Globalizacion y el Sistem Internacional," 20 hour intensive seminar as visiting professor, Master

Degree in International Relations Program, Central American University, Managua, Nicaragua,

16-29 June.

1997 "Transnational Processes in Central America: A Study on Globalization and Social Change,"

paper presented and panel discussion, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress,

Guadalajara, Mexico, April 17-19.

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1997 "The Ogoni, the Environment, and Transnational Corporations," lecture and panel discussion,

Amnesty International, Tennessee Chapter, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, March 17.

1996 "Sistema Contemporaneo Internacional", one-month intensive seminar as visiting professor,

Masters Degree in International Relations Program, Central American University, Managua,

Nicaragua.

1995 "Democracy in the New World Order," one-half hour radio presentation, "The Gary Null Show:

Natural Living," WBAI, New York, 26 October.

1995 "Nicaragua and the World, 1960s-1990s," paper presented and panel discussion, Latin American

Studies Association (LASA) conference, September 28-30, Washington, D.C.

1995 "Incorporating Latin American Studies into High School Curriculum," workshops organized and

lectures for a two seek seminar on Latin America in high school curriculums, "Resources for

Teaching About the Americas," sponsored jointly by the U.S. Department of Education and the

Latin American Institute, University of New Mexico, May 30-June 17.

1994 "Fuerzas Armadas, Democracia en America Latina, y Politica Exterior Norteamericana" Invited

by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to present lecture and paper, International

Conference on "Estado, Sociedad, Fuerzas Armadas y Derechos Humanos," January 13-14,

Managua, Nicaragua.

1994 "Central America: Which Way After the Cold War?," lecture for the Central America Peace

Alliance, and Channel 27 (local public television), Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 10.

1993 "The National Endowment for Democracy in Latin America: Promoting Polyarchy and

Preempting Social Justice," Keynote Speech and paper, Conference on the National Endowment

for Democracy and U.S. Policy in Latin America, University of Ohio, Athens, September 30.

1993 "Latin America and the Clinton Administration," lectures at University of Minnesota at

Minneapolis, and University of Iowa at Ames, invited by local peace groups, July 17-20

1993 "Cuba and the Clinton Administration," lecture, Latin American Institute, University of New

Mexico, Albuquerque, 30 April.

1993 "U.S.-Cuban Relations and the New World Order," two weeks of public lectures in Havana, Cuba,

on U.S.-Cuban relations and the New World Order. Invited by the University of Havana and the

Centro de Estudios sobre America, January.

1990 "The Communications Media in Central America," lecture, Latin American Institute, University of

New Mexico, October.

1990 Participant in "Frontline," CNN, panel discussion on results of Nicaraguan elections, Washington,

D.C., February.

1987-90 Regular Guest Speaker, Close Up Foundation, Washington, D.C., Lectured on U.S.-Central

American relations.

1989 Panelist, "Nicaraguan Dialogue", five days of sessions on conflict resolution in Central America,

sponsored by the U.S. Institute for Peace, the Trinity Forum and the Latin American Institute of

the University of New Mexico, February and April.

1989 "Anti-Americanism or Anti-Interventionism," speech, Latin American Seminar, College of

William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, July.

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1988 "Beyond the Cold War in the Caribbean Basin," Lecture and paper presented, Biannual

Conference of National Alliance of Third World Journalists," Atlanta, April.

1987 "An Alternative U.S. Policy for Central America," guest lecture, Conference of the Association of

Social Anthropologists, Washington, D.C., September.

1984 National Speaking tour in the United States as representative of Agencia Nueva Nicaragua

international news service, invited by universities, educational and public advocacy groups to

lecture on the November 1984 Nicaraguan elections. Spoke at some 30 university and 10 public

forums in 15 states of the United States, September and October 1984.

Numerous Journalist Reports in the Following Outlets (1980-2016)

(partial listing of news publications and media outlets in which articles and commentaries have appeared

does not include webpages/blogs)

Baltimore Sun (Baltimore)

Barricada (Nicaragua)

British Broadcasting Corporation (London)

Business and Society (New York)

Covert Action Quarterly (Washington, D.C.)

Crossroads (Oakland)

El Nacional (Mexico)

El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua)

El Pais (Spain)

El Periodista (Argentina)

El Proceso (Mexico)

Excelsior (Mexico)

Insight (Washington, D.C.)

In these Times (Chicago)

La Jornada (Mexico)

La Juventud (Uruguay)

La Prensa (Nicaragua)

Latinamerica Press (Lima)

Multinational Monitor (Washington. D.C.)

Noticiero Latino (Los Angeles radio news reports)

Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA)

Orlando Spectator (Orlando, Fla.)

Pacific News Service (subscriber news service, San Francisco)

Radio Primerisima (Nicaraguan radio talk show)

San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco)

'Smysl' Magazine (Moscow)

Soberania (Nicaragua)

Southern Africa Magazine (New York)

The Guardian (London)

The Guardian (New York)

Uno mas Uno (Mexico)

Professional Memberships

American Sociological Association

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Latin American Studies Association.

International Studies Association.

Global Studies Association.

Sociologists Without Borders

Union of Nicaraguan Journalists (past member and officer 1984-1990)

Language Skills

* Spoken and Written Fluency in Spanish

* Translation/Interpreting Spanish-English,

English-Spanish

* Working Knowledge (spoken and written) of Portuguese