Barry Gills is Professor of Global Politics in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University and is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. His research interests include 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.

He is editor of the academic journal Globalizations and the Rethinking Globalizations book series (Routledge).

Barry Gills was on the panel of The Great Debate: Post-Territorial Governance and Anti-politics in May 2006 and the Keeping Africa Small debate at The Great Debate: Developing World Challenges in March 2008. Click here for edited video of Keeping Africa Small debate.

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Jan Oosthoek and Barry K Gills, ed. The Globalization of Environmental Crisis. London: Routledge, 2007.
Barry K Gills, ed. The Clash of Globalizations: 'Empire' or 'Cosmopolis'?. London: Routledge, 2007.
Paul James and Barry K Gills, ed. Globalization and Economy, Vol 1: Global Markets and Capitalism. London: Sage, 2007.
Barry K. Gills, ed. 'Global Poverty' or 'Global Justice'?. London: Routledge, 2007.
Barry K. Gills. 'Beyond the 'War on Terror': US hegemony, Global (In)Justice, (Structural) Violence, and 'Global democratic Revolution'. Global Dialogue 2006, 8(3-4).
Barry K. Gills. The Global Politics of Justice. Globalizations 2006, 3(2), 95-98.
Jan Oosthoek Barry K. Gills. Humanity at the Crossroads: The Globalization of Environmental Crisis. Globalizations 2005, 2(3), 283-291.
Dr Barry Gills. Globalization and Global History. London, New York: Routledge, 2005.
Gills, B.K. & Thompson, William R. 'Globalizations, Global Histories,and Historical Globalities'. In: Barry K. Gills, William R. Thompson, ed. Globalization and Global History. London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 1-17.
Dr Barry Gills. The Turning of the Tide. Globalizations 2005, 1(1), 1-6.
Barry Gills. Empire versus Cosmopolis: the Clash of Globalizations. Globalizations 2005, 2(1), 5-13.
Barry K. Gills. In Memoriam: Andre Gunder Frank. Globalizations 2005, 2(1), 1-4.
Barry Gills Andre Gunder Frank. 'A structural theory of the five thousand year world system'. In: Structure, Culture, and History: Recent Issues in Social Theory, Sing C.Chew and J. David Knottnerus (eds). 2005, pp. 151-174.
Barry Gills, Christopher Chase-Dunn. Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World-System: Social Movements and Critical Global Studies. In: Richard P. Applebaum and William I. Robinson, ed. Critical globalization studies. London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 45-54.
Barry Gills, Dong-Sook Gills. Globalization and 'National Capitalism' in South Korea: Reconfiguring State-Capital-Labour Relations. In: Jonathan Perraton and Ben Clift, ed. Where are National Capitalisms Now?. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 169-182.
Dr Barry Gills Andre Gunder Frank. The World System: Five Hundred years or Five Thousand?. Dreumentations Publishing House, 2004.
Dr Barry Gills. 'Globalization as Global History: Introducing a dialetical analysis'. Rethinking Political Global Economy: Emerging Issues, Unfolding Odysseys 2003, 89-108.
Dr Barry Gills Andre Gunder Frank. The world System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?. Istanbul: Image Eitabelli, 2003.
Gills, B.K. Democratizing Globalization and Globalizing Democracy. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 2002, 581(1), 158-171.
Gills, B.K. World system analysis, historical sociology and international relations: the difference a hyphen makes. In: Stephen Hobden and John M. Hobson, ed. Historical Sociology of International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 141-161.
Gills, B.K. Being Critical: A Foreword. In: Abbott, J.P.; Worth, O, ed. Critical Perspectives in International Political Economy. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002, pp. ix-xi.
Gills, B.K. 'Overturning Globalisation: Resisting Teleology, Reclaiming Politics'. In: Payne, A.; Higgott, R, ed. The New political Economy of Globalisation. Camberly: Edward Elgar, 2001.
Gills, B.K. 'Re-orientating the new (international) political Economy'. New Political Economy 2001, 6(2), 233-245.
Barry K. Gills. The Imperative for Multi-Civilizational Dialogue. Peace and Policy 2001, 6, 12-14.
Gills, B.K. The crisis of post war East Asian capitalism: American power, democracy and the vicissitudes of globalisation. Review of International Studies 2000, 26, 381-403.
Gills, B.K. American Power, Neoliberal Globalization, and Low Intensity Democracy: An Unstable Trinity. In: Cox; Ikenberry; Inoguchi, ed. American Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 326-344.

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Barry K. Gills staff profile

Proceedings of the First Conference on Development, Sustainability and Environment
Proceedings of DSE2: The Second Conference on Development, Sustainability and Environment
Proceedings of DSE3: The Third Conference on Development, Sustainability and Environment

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