Professor Manfred Steger

Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Global Studies and Academic Director of the Globalism Institute at RMIT University. He is also Program Leader of ‘Globalization and Culture’, in the Global Cities Institute at RMIT University. In addition, he is Senior Research Fellow at the Globalization Research Center in Honolulu, Hawai’i, and an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa. He has delivered many lectures on globalization, ideology, and nonviolence in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. Comprised of 14 books, dozens of articles and book chapters, and numerous reviews, Professor Steger’s academic work has been cited widely in the pertinent literature. His study Globalism: The New Market Ideology (Rowman & Littelfield, 2002) won the 2003 Michael Harrington Award of the New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association. He has been a consultant on globalization for the U.S. State Department and an advisor on a U.S. Public Television series on the rise and fall of socialism. Favorable reviews of his work have appeared in numerous academic journals including the American Political Science Review and International Affairs. Professor Steger serves on several editorial boards of academic journals as well as on the advisory boards of several globalization research centers around the world. He has been a recipient of research grants from many institutions, including the U.S. National Endowment of the Humanities. His latest book project (in progress) is The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the War on Terror (under contract with Oxford University Press). Two of his latest journal articles are From Market Globalism to Imperial Globalism: Ideology and American Power After 9/11, Globalizations, vol. 2 no. 1, 2005, pp. 31-46 and Ideologies of Globalization, Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 10, no. 1, 2005, pp. 11-30.

Work responsibilities

Professor of Global Studies, Head of School, School of International and Community Studies, RMIT University

• Program Leader of ‘Globalization and Culture’, Global Cities Institute at RMIT University (2006-present)
• Academic Director, Globalism Institute, RMIT University (2005-06).
• Visiting Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i-Manoa, Honolulu, HI. (Spring, 2005)
• Affiliated Faculty Member, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i-Manoa, Honolulu, HI. (2004-present)
• Academic Advisory Board Member, Government and International Affairs Program, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. (2004-present)
• Chair, New Political Science Section, American Political Science Association. (2003-2005)
• Advisory Board Member, Franciscan Center for Global Studies, Marian College, Indianapolis, IN. (2003-present)
• Editorial Board Member of Peer-Reviewed Journals (2003-present):
• Globalizations
• New Political Science
• Journal of Political Ideologies
• Academic consultant on globalization, U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassy in Minsk, Belarus. (2002)
• Academic consultant, PBS Television Series, “Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism.” (2002)
• Publications Director and Research Fellow, Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa (2001-2002)
• Visiting Professor of Sociology (Summer), Department of Sociology, University of Hawai’i-Manoa. (1999-2004)
• Reviewer of articles submitted to peer-reviewed journals, (1992-present) including:
• American Political Science Review, Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Polity, American Journal of Political Science, Political Studies, Critical Sociology, New Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Globalizations, International Affairs, Strategies, Sociological Theory, European Journal for International Relations.

Research Interests

• Theories and Ideologies of Globalization
• Nonviolence and Peace: Political, Religious, and Historical Perspectives
• Comparative Political Ideologies
• Comparative Political Theory
• History of Political Thought: Global Traditions
• Modern and Contemporary Political Theory
• Social Theory
• Political Sociology
• Nationalism and Colonialism
• Critical Theory
• American Political Thought
• History of Socialist Thought
• Religion and Political Thought
• Democracy, Culture, and Politics

Research Projects and Grants

• 2002: Conference Grant. Organizer and Coordinator, International Conference on “Ideological Dimensions of Globalization.” Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa. Honolulu, HI, December 9-12, 2002.
• 2001: University Research Grant (Senior Faculty), College of Arts and Sciences, IllinoisState University.
• 2000-01: Research Grant, Globalization Resear ch Center at University of Hawai’i-Manoa. Honolulu, HI, December 14–January 14.
• 2000: University Research Grant (Senior Faculty), College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University.
• 1999: Research Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities. Project: “Purifying India: The Dilemma of Gandhi’s Nonviolent Nationalism.”
• 1999: University Research Grant (Junior Faculty), College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University.
• 1998: University Research Grant (Junior Faculty), College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University.
• 1997: Summer Seminar Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities. Project: “Nationalism and Cultural Pluralism.” Director: Professor Crawford Young.
• 1997: University Research Grant (Junior Faculty), College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University.

Publications

Globalism: Market Ideology Meets Terrorism. Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

Judging Nonviolence: The Dispute Between Realists and Idealists. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003. Translated into Tamil (2004); Japanese (2005); and Bulgarian (2005).

Globalism: The New Market Ideology. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. WINNER of the 2003 Michael Harrington Book Award, American Political Science Association, New Political Science Section.

Gandhi’s Dilemma: Nonviolent Principles and Nationalist Power. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism: Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Crazy Clouds: Zen Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers (with Perle Besserman). Random House /Shambhala, 1991. Translated into Thai (2005); German (1999); Spanish (1998); and Czech (1994).

BOOKS UNDER CONTRACT

The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the War on Terror (Oxford University Press).

EDITED BOOKS

Rethinking Globalism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.

Social Capital: Critical Perspectives on Community and “Bowling Alone” (with Scott McLean and David Schultz). New York: New York University Press, 2002.

Imagining Nationhood and Foreignness. Special Issue of Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics 13.2, November 2000.

Violence and Its Alternatives: An Interdisciplinary Reader (with Nancy Lind). New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

EngelsAfter Marx (with Terrell Carver). University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1999, and Manchester University Press (UK), 1999. Translated into Turkish (2005).

Selected Writings of Eduard Bernstein 1900-1921 (editor and translator). Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities International Press, 1996.

BOOK SERIES EDITOR

Globalization (with Terrell Carver). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.