Saturday, 10 September 2011

Articles, Speeches & Interviews by William Robinson

From William Robinson's website

For a half-hour extract of a workshop I gave in Spanish in Los Angeles in mid-2011 on 16 points of struggle against global capitalism, see (in three parts): Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

For an opinion piece I wrote in December 2011 titled "Global Rebellion: The Coming Chaos?", click here.

For a translation of that article into spanish, click here.

For a one-hour interview I did with Worldstreams radio station, click here.

For an opinion piece I wrote on May 2011 for Al Jazeera English on "Global Capitalism and 21st Century Fascism", click here.

For a 5 minute talk I gave in December 2010 in Spanish on the challenges facing the Venezuelan Revolution, click here.

For a video stream of a talk I gave in Manila, Philippines on "Understanding Global Capitalism,", click here.

For a video stream of segments of a speech I gave on Israel/Palestine and academic freedom before the Seventh Annual Al-Awda(Right of Return of all Palestinians in the Diaspora to their Homeland Palestine) Convention at Anaheim, California on May 23, 2009, click here (this will take you to a web page that includes a video stream and also the complete transcript of my speech): click here.

For the video stream of a talk I gave in January 2009 at UCSB titled "The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Cyclical, Structural, or Systemic?", click here.

For an interview Zmag conducted with me in 2007 on my theory of global capitalism, click here.
Click here to listen to the keynote address I gave at Yale University's April 7-8, 2006 conference "In the Name of Democracy: U.S. Electoral Intervention in the Americas". The 20-minute address is titled "Democracy, Polyarchy, and U.S. Policy Towards Latin America."

For Speech (in Spanish) on April 1,2007 at the Los Angeles Workers' Center/Casa Roja in commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the failed coup d'etat in Venezuela click here.
For an interview that Venezuelanalysis did with me on democracy promotion, U.S. foreign policy, intervention in Latin America, and the Venezuelan revolution, click here.

2012. "Global Capitalism and Twenty-First Century Fascism: A U.S. Case Study", Race and Class, 53(3):4-29, Jan-March.

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

2011, "Global Capital Leviathan", Radical Philosophy, No. 165, January-February

2010 "Giovanni Arrighi: Systemic Cycles of Accumulation, Hegemonic Transitions, and the Rise of China" New Political Economy.

2010 "The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Cyclical, Structural, or Systemic?", in Martijn Konings, The Great Credit Crash, London: Verso, 2010.

2010 “Beyond The Theory of Imperialism” Global Capitalism and The Transnational State.

2010 “Global Capitalism Theory and the Emergence of Transnational Elites” Wider World Institute for Development Economics Research.

2009 “Global Capitalism, Social Science, and Methods of Critique” Geopolitics, History, and International Relations, Volume1(2):98-108.

2009 “Globalizacion, Crisis, y Escenarios de Futuro,” Estudios Centroamericanos, 63(715-716):331-344.
Saskia Sassen and the Sociology of Globalization: A Critical Appraisal. Sociological Analysis. Spring 2009.
Cuba! Cuba! Cuba! Latin American perspectives. William I. Robinson. January, 2009.

Understanding Global Capitalism. Focus on the Global South's Development Roundtable Series, January 25, 2008.

Transformative Possibilities in Latin America. Socialist Register 2008. London: Merlin Press, 2008.
Why the Immigrant Rights Struggle Compels Us to Reconceptualize Both Latin American and Latino/a Studies. LASA Forum. Spring 2007.

Jesse Díaz & Javier Rorríguez: Undocumented in America. New Left Review Vol. 47, 94-106, September-October, 2007.

The Pitfalls of Realist Analysis of Global Capitalism: A Critique of Ellen Meiksens Wood's Empire of Capital. Historical Materialism Vol. 15, 71-93, 2007.

*Ellen Wood's response: A Reply to Critics. Historical Materialism 15. 2007(143-170) 

Theories of Globalization. In (ed.) George Ritzer Blackwell Companion to Globalization. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

Beyond the Theory of Imperialism: Global Capitalism and Transnational State. Societies Without Borderse No. 2, 5-26, 2007.

Promoting Polyarchy in Latin America: The Oxymoron of "Market Democracy." In (eds.) Eric Hershberg and Fred Rosen Latin America After Neoliberalism. New York: The New Press, 2006.

Latin America, State Power, and the Challenge to Global Capitalism: An Interview with William Robinson. Upping the Anti No. 3, 59-76, Fall 2006.

'Aqui estamos y no nos vamos!' Global capital and Immigrant rights. Race and Class Vol. 48, No. 2, 77-91, 2006.

What is Critical Globalization Studies? Intellectual Labor and Global Society. In Judith R. Blau and Keri Iyall-Smith, Public Sociologies Reader, Rowman and Littlefeld, 2006, 21-36.

Global Capitalism: The New Transnationalism and the Folly of Conventional Thinking. Science and Society, Vol. 69, No. 3, July 2005, 316-328.

Gramsci and Globalisation: From Nation-State to Transnatioanl Hegemony. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Vol.8, No. 4, 1-16, December 2005.

Kees Van Der Pul. Feature Review of A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class and State in a Transnatioanl World by William I. Robinson, in New Political Economy, Vol. 10, No. 2, June 2005.

What to Expect from US "Democracy Promotion" in Iraq. New Political Science, Volume 26, Number 3, September 2004, pp. 441-447.

Global Crisis and Latin America. Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 135-153, 2004.
Remapping development in light of globalisation: from a territorial to a social cartography. Third Word Quarterly, Vol. 23, No 6, pp. 1047-1071, 2002

Social Theory and globalization: The rise of a transnational state. Theory and Society: Renewal and Critique in Social Theory. Vol. 30/2. April 2001, pp. 157-200.
 
Transnational processes, development studies and changin social hieracrchies in the world system: a Central American case study. Third World Quarterly, Vol 22, No 4, pp 529-563, 2001.
 
1998 "Centroamerica ante la Globalizacion y la Responsabilidad de los Intelectuales Organicos," Alternativas 5(No. 9/1998):31-56.

Beyond Nation-State Paradigms: Globalization,Sociology, and the Challenge of Transnational Studies. Sociological Forum 1998.

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.

1996 “Globalization: Nine These of Our Epoch,” Race and Class, 38(2).

The Global Economy and the Latino Populations in the United States: A World Systems Appraoch by William I. Robinson. An article from Critical Sociology 1992.