R. O’BRIEN

Professor of Political Science at McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada). Author of the six books and over twenty journal articles and book chapters in the fields of international relations and global political economy, including: “Labour Internationalism in the Global South: The SIGTUR Initiative”, “Global Political Economy: Evolution and Dynamics” (co-author), “Challenging Corporate Capital: Creating an Alternative to Neoliberalism” (co-editor), “Revisiting Rosa Luxemburg’s Internationalism”, “An Internationalist Western Labour Response to the Globalization of India and China” (co-author), “Continuing Incivility: Labor Rights in a Global Economy”, etc. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in global political economy and supervises graduate students interested in global labour issues, global civil society, international organization, global governance and the political economy of climate change. He is consulting editor of Global Labour Journal.