Prof. Barry Gills
Prof of Global Politics
- Email: b.k.gills@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 7742
- Fax: 0191 222 5069
- Address: Room: 207
Politics
40-42 Great North Road
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Research Interests
Globalization; Global History; Historical Dialectics; World System theory; International Political Economy; Global Civil Society and Global Citizenship; historical analysis of social systems and social change; world economic history; globalization and the politics of resistance; the political economy of development.
Other Expertise
South Korean political economy; North-South Korea relations; east Asian politics and international relations; east Asian regional political economy
Current Work
Writing a monograph entitled; The World Turned Upside Down: Andre Gunder Frank on (Under)Development and World History, Routledge, manuscript deadline April 2007, 120,000 words.
Selected Publications
- Oosthoek KJW; Gills BK, ed. The Globalization of Environmental Crisis. London: Routledge, 2008.
- Gills BK, ed. The global politics of globalization: "Empire" vs "Cosmopolis". London: Routledge, 2008.
- James P; Gills BK, ed. Globalization and Economy: Global Markets and Capitalism. London: Sage, 2007.
- Gills BK, ed. Globalization and the global politics of justice. London: Routledge, 2008.
- Gills BK. 'Beyond the 'War on Terror': US hegemony, Global (In)Justice, (Structural) Violence, and 'Global democratic Revolution'. Global Dialogue 2006, 8(3-4).
- Gills BK. The global politics of justice. Globalizations 2006, 3(2), 95-98.
Future Research
A multi-volume study of historical dialectics in global history entitled Capital and Power: a global history
Globalization and the Challenges of Global Citizenship, a project under preparation, with professor Andrew Linklater, Fellow of the British Academy, to apply for British Academy conference in 2007
Research Roles
Editor of Book Series, 'Rethinking Globalizations' (Routledge)
Editor of Globalizations (journal) (Routledge)
Global Economic History Network, Core group member
Postgraduate Supervision
Mark Bailey (ESRC, submitted 31 March 2006, viva 16 Sept. 2006)
Chen-Wei Huang (Taiwan)
Nerisa Chen (PRC)
Masoud Alamuti (Iran)
Tao Zhang (PRC)
Eku Kobayashi (Japan)
Hye Young Na (Korea)
Robert Defia (Ghana)
Byeong Chul Mun (Korea)
Graham Donkin (Canada/UK)
Elizabeth Pallister (UK)
Esteem Indicators
Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science
Editor: Globalizations journal
Book Series Editor, Rethinking GLobalizations (Routledge)
President, International Studies Assoc. IPE Section 2006/7
Editorial Board- Third World Quarterly
Governing Council; Global Studies Association - North America
Governing Council, Global Studies Association- UK/Europe
Governing Council, British International Studies Assoc. IPE Group
Funding
External grant from the Globalization Research Network for the journal Globalizations of $98,000
Currently negotiating and about to sign new contract with the patel Center for Global Solutions for support of Globalizations journal of $86, 950
Qualifications
Phd, London School of Economics and Political Science,(International Relations) 1995
Previous Positions
Director, Globalization Research Center, University of Hawaii, March 2002- August 2003, and concurrently Visiting Research Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002-2003
Memberships
World Academy of Art and Science
International Studies Association, IPE Section
British International Studies Association
Global Studies Association- UK/Europe
Global Studies Association- North America
Globalization Studies Network
Honours and Awards
Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science
Undergraduate Teaching
POL 100 Introduction to Politics and History
POL364: The Third World in Global Development
Postgraduate Teaching
POL 817 The State in International Political Economy
POL 818 The INternational Poltiical Economy of East Asia
MA dissertation/supervision