Newcastle University

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

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Publishing : Book Series and Journal Editor

Founding and Current Series Editor (contracted to 2016), “Rethinking Globalizations” book series, Routledge. This series now has over 40 volumes in publication and several currently under review. The series publishes on average several new titles per annum.  Among recently published titles are:  Arab Revolutions and World Transformations, edited by Anna M. Agathangelou and Nevzat Soguk (for which I was Commissioning Editor of the special issue of Globalizations journal which this volume reprints);  China’s Development: Capitalism and empire, by Michel Aglietta and Guo Bai; Global Governance and NGO Participation: Shaping the information society in the United Nations, by Charlotte Dany; Edges of Global Justice: The World Social Forum and its ‘others’, by Janet M. Conway; A History of World Order and Resistance: the making and unmaking of global subjects, by Andre Drainville; and  Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order, edited by Ronaldo Munck, Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Raul Delgado Wise.

Founding and current Editor (contracted to 2016) Globalizations journal, Routledge, Taylor and Francis.  The journal publishes six issues per annum. I am the journal’s Commissioning Editor for all special issues, and I commission at least 3 special issues for publication each year, and these are currently commissioned through 2015.  The latest special issue is entitled “Land Grabbing and Global Governance”, (Vol 10, no 1, February 2013), pp. 1-209,  edited by  Matias E. Margulis, Nora Mckeon, and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. (I worked closely from conception and planning stage onward  with the editors on this special issue) ; the previous special issue was Vol 9, no 6, December 2012; “Social Movements, The Poor and the New Politics of the Americas”, edited by  Havard Haarstad, Mark Amen, and Asuncion Lera St. Clair (originating in an international conference on this theme hosted by the Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida,USA, for which I was co-initiator and co-organizer, with the editors of the special issue.

120 Podcasts and Media Interviews:

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“The Global Financial Crisis: 3 years On: An Interview with Professor Barry K. Gills, Editor of Globalizations, August 2011,  http://www.tandfonline.com/page/rglo-media

Russian:  television and internet news interviews, October 2011 (file-rf.ru) and The Institute for Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow (www.iqso.ru),

Polish: interview with Polish journal Krytyka Polityczna, on the global financial crisis and alternatives, October 2011.

Iranian: Interview with Iranian international news service,  7 November, 2011, on European and global financial crisis and Greek situation.

“Engineering the Future”, video recorded at The Festival of the Social Sciences,  and posted online on website of “The Great Debate”, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK, Nov. 2011

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.

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

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

• Gills B. Archetypal reasoning and the dialectic of forms. 2013. In Preparation.
• Gills B. From Globalization to Cosmopolis. Routledge, 2013. In Preparation.
• Gills BK, Gray K. People Power in the Era of Global Crisis: rebellion, resistance, and liberation. Third World Quarterly 2012, 33(2), 205-224.
• Gills B. The Modern World System under Asian hegemony: The Silver Standard World Economy 1450-1750. In: Manning, P., Gills, B.K, ed. Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development: Visions, Remembrances, and Explorations. London, UK: Routledge, 2011, pp.74-120.
• Gills BK. Globalization, Crisis and Transformation: World Systemic Crisis and the Historical Dialectics of Capital. Globalizations 2010, 7(1-2), 275-288.
• Gills BK. Going South: capitalist crisis, systemic crisis, civilisational crisis. Third World Quarterly 2010, 31(2), 169-184.
• Gills B. The Return of Crisis in the Era of Globalization: One Crisis, or Many?. Globalizations 2010, 7(1-2), 3-8.
• Gills BK, Denemark R. L'hypothèse de la continuité historique du système-monde. In: Beaujard P, ed. Histoire globale, mondialisations et capitalisme. Paris: La Découverte, 2009.
• Gills BK. Climate Change: A Global Call to Action. Globalizations 2008, 5(1), 83-87.
• Gills BK, ed. Globalization and the global politics of justice. London: Routledge, 2008.
• Gills BK, ed. The global politics of globalization: "Empire" vs "Cosmopolis". London: Routledge, 2008.
• Oosthoek J, Gills BK, ed. The Globalization of Environmental Crisis. London: Routledge, 2008.
• Gills BK. The Swinging of the Pendulum: The Global Crisis and Beyond. Globalizations 2008, 5(4), 513-522.
• James P, Gills BK, ed. Globalization and Economy: Global Markets and Capitalism. London: Sage, 2007.
• 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, Thompson WR. 'Globalizations, Global Histories,and Historical Globalities'. In: Gills BK; Thompson WR, ed. Globalization and Global History. London: Routledge, 2006, pp.1-17.
• Gills BK, Thompson WR, ed. Globalization and Global History. London, New York: Routledge, 2006.
• Gills BK. Prologue: The Turning of the Tide. In: Dasgupta S; Kiely R, ed. Globalization and After. New Delhi and London: Sage, 2006, pp.13-20.
• Gills BK. The global politics of justice. Globalizations 2006, 3(2), 95-98.
• Gills BK. Empire versus cosmopolis: the clash of globalizations. Globalizations 2005, 2(1), 5-13.
• Gills BK, Oosthoek KJW. Humanity at the crossroads: The globalization of environmental crisis. Globalizations 2005, 2(3), 283-291.
• Gills BK. In Memoriam: Andre Gunder Frank (24 February 1929 to 23 April 2005). Globalizations 2005, 2(1), 1-4.
• Gills BK, Chase-Dunn C. Waves of globalization and resistance in the capitalist world-system: social movements and critical global studies. In: Applebaum RP; Robinson WI, ed. Critical Globalization Studies. London: Routledge, 2005, pp.45-54.
• Gills BK, Gills DS. Globalization and 'national capitalism' in South Korea: Reconfiguring state-capital-labour Relations. In: Perraton J; Clift B, ed. Where are National Capitalisms Now?. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp.169-182.
• Gills BK. The turning of the tide. Globalizations 2004, 1(1), 1-6.
• Gills BK, Frank AG. The World System: Five Hundred years or Five Thousand?. Dreumentations Publishing House, 2004.
• Gills BK. Globalization as global history: Introducing a dialetical analysis. In: Tétreault MA; Denemark RA; Thomas KP; Burch K, ed. Rethinking Political Global Economy: Emerging Issues, Unfolding Odysseys. London: Routledge, 2003, pp.89-108.
• Gills BK, Frank AG. The world System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?. Istanbul: Image Eitabelli, 2003.
• Gills BK, Frank AG. A structural theory of the five thousand year world system. In: Chew SC; Knottnerus JD, ed. Structure, Culture, and History: Recent Issues in Social Theory. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002, pp.151-174.
• Gills BK. Being Critical: A Foreword. In: Abbott JP; Worth O, ed. Critical Perspectives in International Political Economy. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002, pp.ix-xi.
• Gills B. Democratizing globalization and globalizing democracy. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 2002, 581(1), 158-171.
• Gills BK. World system analysis, historical sociology and international relations: the difference a hyphen makes. In: Hobden S; Hobson JM, ed. Historical Sociology of International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp.141-161.
• Gills BK. Overturning globalisation: resisting teleology, reclaiming politics. In: Payne A; Higgott R, ed. The New political Economy of Globalisation. Camberly: Edward Elgar, 2001.
• Gills BK. Re-orientating the new (international) political Economy. New Political Economy 2001, 6(2), 233-245.
• Gills BK. The Imperative for Multi-Civilizational Dialogue. Peace & Policy 2001, 6, 12-14.
• Gills BK. American Power, Neoliberal Globalization, and Low Intensity Democracy: An Unstable Trinity. In: Cox M; Ikenberry GJ; Inoguchi T, ed. American Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.326-344.
• Amoore L, Dodgson R, Germain RD, Gills BK, Langley P, Watson IW. Paths to a historicized international political economy. Review of International Political Economy 2000, 7(1), 53-71.
• Gills BK. The crisis of postwar East Asian capitalism: American power, democracy and the vicissitudes of globalization. Review of International Studies 2000, 26(3), 381-403.
• Gills BK. Economic liberalisation and reform in South Korea in the 1990s: A 'coming of age' or a case of 'graduation blues'?. Third World Quarterly 1996, 17(4), 667-688.