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Gregory Williams

Gregory Williams

Emeritus Faculty

Political Science & International Affairs
College of Humanities & Social Sciences

Contact Information

Mailing Address
University of Northern Colorado
Political Science & International Affairs
Campus Box 130
Greeley, CO 80639

Education

Dr. Gregory P. Williams graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maine with membership in Phi Beta Kappa. As a Maine Policy Scholar, he studied clean elections and party politics. He also served as vice president of the Maine Outing Club. Williams earned his doctorate at the University of Connecticut. He specialized in international relations and comparative politics. Williams won competitive grants from the president鈥檚 office and the multidisciplinary Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering. More information can be found on his personal website, .  

Professional/Academic Experience

Williams is associate professor of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs. Along with the introductory courses on U.S. national government and international relations, he teaches upper-level courses on foreign relations, globalization, and post-Soviet politics.

Publications/Creative Works

Professor Williams writes primarily about international relations, especially on the topics of American hegemony and radical perspectives of political economy. He also writes in the areas of comparative democratization, including social movements and state building, and on contemporary American political thought.

Books

Contesting the Global Order: TheRadical Political Economy of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein (Albany:SUNY Press, 2020). Series in New Political Science.

[Reviewed in Choice (鈥淗ighly Recommended鈥), Perspectives on Politics, Contemporary Sociology, New Political Science, the Journal of Economic Literature,and the Journal of World-Systems Research.]

Articles

鈥淪ocial history from a bird鈥檚 eye view: Perry Anderson鈥檚 theory of international relations,鈥 International Politics 58, no. 2 (2021): 259-277.

鈥淲hat鈥檚 the Matter with Resentment? Richard Hofstadter鈥檚 Understanding of Political Paranoia,鈥 American Political Thought 8, no. 4 (2019): 528-551.

鈥淥ld Ideas for New Times: Radical History in International Political Economy,鈥 Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 17, no. 4 (2018): 429-450.

鈥淲ill We Know It When We See It? Contemplating Emergent World-Systems,鈥 Journal of Globalization Studies 9, no. 1 (2018): 14-34. 

鈥淲hen Opportunity Structure Knocks: Separatism in the Soviet Union and Russian Federation,鈥Social Movement Studies 9, no. 4 (2010): 443-460.

Book Chapters

鈥淔rom Africa to the World: The Sources of Wallerstein鈥檚 The Modern World-System,鈥 in The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein,鈥 Chamsy el-Ojeili and Patrick Hayden, eds. (London: Anthem Press, under contract).

鈥淲orld-Systems Analysis as Critical Political Science,鈥 鈥淧erry Anderson,鈥 and 鈥淚mmanuel Wallerstein鈥 (one chapter and two reference entries), in Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science, Clyde Barrow, ed. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Press, under contract).

Short Pieces (Public Commentary and Scholarly Essays)

鈥淭he paranoid president,鈥 Monthly Review Online ().

鈥淭he brutality of capitalism,鈥 Monthly Review Online ().

鈥淟abor Pragmatism,鈥 Perspectives on Politics 14, no. 1 (2016): 145-146.

Interview with Immanuel Wallerstein (and accompanying essay), 鈥淩etrospective on the Origins of World-Systems Analysis,鈥 Journal of World-Systems Research 19, no. 2 (2013): 202-210.

Miscellaneous (Book Reviews and Policy Studies)

鈥淩eview of The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, by Immanuel Wallerstein,鈥 New Political Science 34, no. 3 (2012): 428-431.

鈥淩eview of The New Old World, by Perry Anderson,鈥 Socialist History 39 (2011): 100-103.

鈥淪unset Law In Connecticut鈥 (with Carrie Vibert, lead author), Legislative Program Review and Investigations Committee, Connecticut General Assembly, Hartford, CT (2007): 1-61.

Reviews (2010-2014) in Choice Magazine: S. Ridgeway and P. Jacques, The Power of the Talking Stick (2014); A. Carter, People Power and Political Change (2013); I. Clark, Hegemony in International Society (2012); D. Drezner, Theories of International Politics and Zombies (2011); I. Neumann and O. J. Sending, Governing the Global Polity (2011); C. Hill, Grand Strategies (2010); and, A. Hybel, The Power of Ideology (2010).