William I. Robinson

William I. Robinson (born March 28, 1959) is an American professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work focuses on political economy, globalization, Latin America and historical materialism. He is a member of the International Parliamentary and Civil Society Mission to Investigate the Political Transition in Iraq.

Early life

In the early 1980s Robinson worked as a journalist in war-torn Nicaragua. He was a member of Union of Nicaraguan Journalists (past member and officer 1984–1990).

Academic life

Robinson then went on to study for his BA in Journalism with the Friends World College in Nairobi (Kenya), Ibadan (Nigeria), and Costa Rica. Following this he received both his MA in Latin American Studies and his PhD in Sociology at the University of New Mexico.

Academic work

Robinson wrote many academic journal articles and books, and made several contributions to Al Jazeera. Many of his works have been translated into Spanish.

Theoretical debates

Entire symposiums and issues of scholarly journals have focused on discussing and debating Robinson's theories on global capitalism, class, and political economy. See for example the May 2012 issue of Critical Sociology [1], the April 2001 issue of Theory and Society, the debate between Robinson and noted Marxian theorist Ellen Meiksins Wood in issue 15 of the journal Historical Materialism, the debate between British political economist in the 2009 volume 1(2) of the journal of the contemporary science association.

Works

• Robinson, William I.; Norsworthy, Kent (1987). David and Goliath: the U. S. War Against Nicaragua. New York, N.Y.: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 0-85345-721-2.
• Robinson, William I. (1992). A Faustian Bargain: U. S. Intervention in the Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign Policy in the post-Cold War Era. Boulder: Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-8233-5.
• Robinson, William I. (1996). Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56691-6.
• Burbach, Roger; Robinson, William; Jeffries, Fiona Margaret (2001). Globalization and Postmodern Politics: from Zapatistas to High Tech Robber Barons. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 0-7453-1649-2.
• Robinson, William I. (2003). Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change and Globalization. London: Verso. ISBN 1-85984-547-9.
• Robinson, William I. (2004). A Theory of Global Capitalism: Transnational Production, Transnational Capitalists, and the Transnational State. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-7927-2.
• Robinson, William I.; Appelbaum, Richard P. (2005). Critical globalization studies. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-94961-0.
• Robinson, William I. (2008). Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective (Johns Hopkins Studies in Globalization). The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9039-0.
• Robinson, William I. (2014). Globalization and the Crisis of Humanity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107691117
• We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel's Critics Paperback (2017) with Maryam S. Griffin ISBN 9781849352765
• Robinson, William I. (2019). Global Capitalist Crisis and Twenty-First Century Fascism: Beyond the Trump Hype (PDF). Science and Society 83(2).
• Robinson, William I. (2019). Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism. Haymarket Books.[2]
• Robinson, William I. (2020). Global Police State. Pluto Press. [3]
• Robinson, William I. (2022). Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic. PM Press.[4]
• Robinson, William I. (2022). Can Global Capitalism Endure? Clarity Press. [5]

External links

• William I. Robinson at the University of California, Santa Barbara
• William I. Robinson at SourceWatch