Professor Ronnie D. Lipschutz - Biography
Ronnie D. Lipschutz is Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. During Fall term 2011, he
is a Velux Visiting Professor in the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School. He
was a visiting Professor of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London during
2009-10, and a Visiting Professor and Fellow in the Department of International Relations and Politics during
2002. Lipschutz received his Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC-Berkeley in 1987 and an SM in Physics
from MIT in 1978. He has been a faculty member at UCSC since 1990.
Lipschutz's most recent books are Political Economy, Capitalism and Popular Culture (Rowman & Littlefield,
2010), The Constitution of Imperium (Paradigm, 2008) and Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics:
Regulation for the Rest of Us? (Routledge, 2005) as well as a text co-authored with Mary Ann Tétreault, Global
Politics as if People Mattered (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009, 2nd ed.). He is editor of Civil Societies and Social
Movements (Ashgate, 2006) and co-editor (with K. Ravi Raman) Corporate Social Responsibility: Comparative
Critiques (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2010) and (with Gabriela Kütting) of Global Environmental
Governance—Power and Knowledge in a Local-Global World (Routledge, 2009). He is also author of, among
other volumes, Global Environmental Politics: Power, Perspectives and Practice (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press,
2004), After Authority—War, Peace and Global Politics in the 21st Century (Albany, N.Y.: State University of
New York Press, 2000) Cold War Fantasies—Film, Fiction and Foreign Policy (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and
Littlefield, 2001) and Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Politics (SUNY Press, 1996), and editor or
co-editor of several other books.