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Blog of Dr. Jeb Sprague-Silgado, E-mail: jhsprague[at]soc[dot]ucsb[dot]edu
2021-11-05 12:25
Jasmin Hristov, Aaron Tauss, and myself have published this new edited book: "Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization Political Violence, Elites, and Security". For more… Read More
2021-07-21 19:53
2021-06-29 17:13
I co-edited this recent symposium on Covid-19 vaccine testing, production, and distribution internationally. The pieces appear in the Sectors newsletter of the Development of Sociology secti… Read More
2021-06-03 21:04
Dorith Grant-Wisdom, Marilyn Grell-Brisk, Hilbourne Watson, and myself are speaking together on a panel at the Caribbean Studies Association. The title of the panel is "Globalization C… Read More
2021-06-03 20:47
The Anti-Imperialist Network has published one of the better reviews of my new book. It can be read here. Read More
2021-04-26 20:31
A Cambridge University Press journal "The Americas" has published a review of my recent book. It can be read here. Read More
2021-04-01 06:31
My recent book "Globalizing the Caribbean: Political Economy, Social Change, and the Transnational Capitalist Class" was reviewed by Sarah Hernandez in Contemporary Sociology. You can r… Read More
2021-01-10 18:08
Read my new report (co-authored w/ Alex Rubinstein) that looks at the tens of billions spent on war, weapons, and regime change from the $1.4 trillion omnibus that was voted on alongsid… Read More
2020-12-10 13:05
Here is an interview that I did on my most recent book "Globalizing the Caribbean" with WPFW News & Public Affair's David Whettstone. WPFW is part of the Pacific Radio Network and… Read More
2020-12-10 12:33
Read this excellent review by Edna Bonhomme of "Globalizing the Caribbean: Political economy, social change, and the transnational capitalist class" Read More
2020-09-20 20:46
Summarizing the main points in my recent sole-authored book, I have a new chapter titled "The Caribbean and Global Capitalism: Five Strategic Traits". It appears in this new edited volume: … Read More
2020-06-18 09:31
I have a co-authored chapter titled "Transnational Amazon: Labor Exploitation and the Rise of E-Commerce in South Asia" in the new book The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in th… Read More
2020-05-14 11:00
You can now pre-order a copy of the new book Futures Held Hostage: Confronting US Hybrid Wars and Sanctions in Venezuela. It will be out this October with Pluto Press. I… Read More
2020-03-30 22:49
Read here my new co-authored article looking at Haiti on the precipice of Covid-19. -Population of 11.3 million -64 ventilators -30 to 123 ICU beds -Experts warn that many hundreds of thou… Read More
2020-03-20 20:46
The below article looks over ongoing attempts by the Trump administration to intensify geopolitical divisions within the Caribbean community and in the context of the economic war on Venezue… Read More
2020-02-28 21:41
Large-scale protests are continuing inside the Dominican Republic and among its diaspora against Danilo Medina's PLD government and its recent attempt at stealing municipal elections. … Read More
2020-01-27 12:57
2020-01-21 02:51
Listen below to a special two part-interview series that I conducted with Dr. Hilbourne Watson for "The East is a Podcast".In the first part he briefly provides his thoughts on a number of t… Read More
2019-12-29 01:45
Here is a short interview that I did on the radio show "By any means necessary", and a longer interview on the Podcast "Around the empire", where I discuss the political economy of Domi… Read More
2019-12-16 21:56
Here is a short piece "development and global capitalism" that I have co-authored with Hilbourne Watson, Emeritus Professor at Bucknell University. It is published in Sectors, the newsletter… Read More
2019-11-14 00:22
Read my short investigative piece here on how top coup plotters in Bolivia were trained at the School of the Americas (SOA) and served as Attachés in an FBI-connected police program Read More
2019-10-01 19:33
Race & Class has published a review of my new book, by Dr. Jerry Harris, National Secretary of the Global Studies Association of North America. Read it here. Read More
2019-09-12 12:42
I have a new book review looking at Marion Werner's "Global Displacements: The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean". It is published in the Journal of World-Syste… Read More
2019-08-09 19:44
I am quoted in The New Republic magazine on the dilemma that Trinidad and Tobago faces as the U.S. government's hybrid war on Venezuela expands, causing a growing number of migrant… Read More
2019-05-17 00:22
Here is a new investigative piece that I have written with Alex Rubinstein examining the group besieging the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC.Who’s Behind the Pro-Guaidó Cro… Read More
2019-05-04 04:00
Washington’s hybrid war on Venezuela - a very 21st-century attempt at regime changeBy @JebSpraguehttps://t.co/IgRK3Y783N #Venezuela #VenezuelaCoup— The Canary US (@TheCanaryUS) M… Read More
2019-04-18 15:56
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2019-03-20 21:30
I have a new book review looking at Marion Werner's "Global Displacements: The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean". It is published in the new issue of the Journal o… Read More
2019-01-27 18:22
I am a co-signer of this open letter calling for dialogue and an end to U.S. intervention in Venezuela. The full letter can be read here Read More
2018-12-20 20:07
Read here a short article that I have written for The Canary, a news website based in the UK. The article looks at the recent massacre conducted by state and state backed forces in… Read More
2018-12-12 21:42
I have a new working paper (a non-refereed research paper) published with the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), a think tank in Berlin. The paper is titled "State transforma… Read More
2018-11-24 17:42
2018-10-29 17:14
En una conferencia de seguridad en Berlín, el neoconservador de mano dura Jamie Fly daba la impresión de abrogarse el crédito por la reciente purga coordinada de medios… Read More
2018-10-29 16:10
Lors d'une conférence sur la sécurité à Berlin, Jamie Fly, un néo-conservateur extrémiste, a semblé s’attribuer le mérite de la… Read More
2018-10-26 15:17
You can now pre-order a copy of my new book here on Amazon. The title of the book is: "Globalizing the Caribbean: Political Economy, Social Change, and the Transnational Capitalist Class." Read More
2018-10-23 18:55
I have a large co-authored chapter looking over the idea of a transnational capitalist class (TCC), and the different findings and debates on this topic. The chapter is published in th… Read More
2018-10-23 15:54
See this new co-authored article that I have looking at the role of neoconservatives and DC think tanks in working with Facebook and other social media platforms to censor alternat… Read More
2018-07-09 15:13
Esta presentación se realizó en la conferencia "Capitalismo global en las Américas" que se celebró en La Habana, Cuba, en noviembre de 2017. Esta fue la cuarta co… Read More
2018-06-14 20:38
Here is a recent presentation (that I recorded) by Emeritus Professor Hilbourne Watson. It is titled "Crisis of global capitalism, global white supremacy, and the new nationalism" and… Read More
2018-06-11 18:47
The 2018 summer issue of NACLA opens with my new article: "Global Capitalism in the Caribbean". Read the article here Read More
2018-02-11 21:51
I have a new research article on Haiti published in the journal Third World Quarterly. It can be read here Read More
2017-11-05 20:04
Call For Papers:Global Capitalism in the AmericasThe 4th Biennial Conference of the Network for the Critical Study of Global Capitalism (NCSGC)November 1-3, 2017La Habana, CubaFeaturing keyn… Read More
2017-10-27 05:55
I am happy to announce that my second sole-authored book will be published in early 2019 by Temple University Press. It will be titled: Globalizing the Caribbean. Read More
2017-09-05 16:37
I am a co-signer of this open letter calling for the U.S. government to extend Haiti's TPS (temporary protected status) designation. As the letter states: failure to extend TPS "wo… Read More
2017-08-20 07:41
The scholarly journal Research in Political Economy has published my newest article: "Transnational Capitalist Class and Relations of Production in Asia and Oceania". You can dow… Read More
2017-07-18 08:17
Alexius A. Pereira, a researcher in Singapore (who received his Ph.D. at LSE), has published an excellent review of my 2016 edited volume. His review of Globalization and Transnational… Read More
2017-06-04 04:13
I am working this weekend as an international election observer for the Mexican civil society organization “Ni un fraude más" (No more fraud). We will be investigating electoral… Read More
2017-05-17 09:43
My 2012 book "Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy" provided a detailed documentation and investigation of paramilitarism in Haiti in the lead up to and following the 2004 C… Read More
2017-04-28 19:50
See TeleSUR for a new co-authored op-ed titled : "The US Political Scene: Whiteness and the Legitimacy Crisis of Global Capitalism". Read More
2017-04-05 01:22
Jeb Sprague-Silgado Interview from CUSLAR on Vimeo Read More
2017-04-04 04:54
2017-03-24 11:32
I was interviewed today by The Real News on current events in Haiti and in relation to my earlier research on paramilitarism in the context of economic restructuring, social conflict, a… Read More
2017-03-13 18:41
La revue Période a publié mon nouvel article en français «Haïti : le capitalisme des paramilitaires». Read More
2017-02-28 18:59
The Journal of World-Systems Research published today a new peer-reviewed journal article that I have authored. The article examines the fundamental changes that the cruise ship b… Read More
2017-01-06 04:09
The journal Latin American Perspectives has published my lengthy review of Caribbean political economist Hilbourne Watson's excellent new monograph Globalization, Sovereignty and Citize… Read More
2017-01-04 18:13
This March I will be giving a talk at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (time & location TBA). The talk is sponsored by CUSLAR (the Committee on U.S.-Lati… Read More
2016-12-11 17:08
The Journal of Asia Pacific Economy has published a review of my edited volume "Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania" (Routledge, 2015). You can read the entire rev… Read More
2016-09-26 16:38
See below the CFP for a new edited volume that I am co-editting:The Political Violence of Capital: Paramilitary FormationsIn Global PerspectiveEditors: Jasmin Hristov, Jeb Sprague-Silga… Read More
2016-08-17 07:08
The Journal of World-Systems Research has published an excellent review by Ph.D. candidate David Feldman of my 2015 edited volume (with Routledge) titled Globaliza… Read More
2016-08-06 13:34
A Mandarin Chinese version of my forthcoming article "Transnational capitalist class and relations of production in Asia and Oceania" is now published by the Taiwan/Hong Kong/mainland C… Read More
2016-05-26 02:40
Click here for a PDF of my new article published in the scholarly journal Caribbean Studies. This is an altered version of one chapter in my recently completed Ph.D. dissertation: The… Read More
2016-05-15 07:23
Matthew Davidson, at the University of Miami, has written an excellent review of my 2012 book. You can read it here, on the website: Haiti: Then and Now. Read More
2016-05-07 00:29
I have a new short article titled "Polyarchy in the Dominican Republic: The Elite Versus the Elite" that is published on the NACLA website. Read it here. I was also recently interviewed on… Read More
2016-05-06 20:10
I have a new article titled "Polyarchy in the Dominican Republic: The Elite Versus the Elite" that is published in NACLA. Read it here. I was also recently interviewed o… Read More
2016-04-23 01:02
I was recently interviewed by professor of journalism Rick Rockwell of Latin Pulse on the upcoming elections in the Dominican Republic (The aired interview includes most of our dis… Read More
2016-02-19 02:33
Click here for a PDF of my new article published in the scholarly journal Caribbean Studies. This is an altered version of one chapter in my recently completed Ph.D. dissertation: The… Read More
2016-02-08 21:35
Please ask your local librarian to order a copy of the new volume that I have published with Routledge. See here for a PDF of my introductory chapter: "Glo… Read More
2016-01-12 18:15
See here for a new piece that I have published in the journal Critical Sociology reviewing Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin's book The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of A… Read More
2016-01-12 18:15
See here for a new piece that I have published in the journal Critical Sociology reviewing Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin's book The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of A… Read More
2016-01-12 18:14
York University Associate Professor Justin Podur has published a review of my 2012 book in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. Read the review here. Podur is also the auth… Read More
2016-01-12 18:13
This March 23rd I will be giving a few talks on the Caribbean's shifting political economy. More specifically I will look at the restructuring of the cruise ship, remittance, mini… Read More
2016-01-12 18:12
See below, for information on an upcoming symposium at the University of Arizona, where I will be presenting updated material related to my 2012 book and put forward a theoretical approach f… Read More
2015-12-13 16:56
Below are photos to accompany my book Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti (Monthly Review Press, 2012). These photos were either: (a) provided to me with… Read More
2015-02-23 02:31
I have published here in teleSUR a new piece titled "Jamaica and the Politics of Debt Trap" that I wrote while conducting research in Kingston, Jamaica. A Spanish version of the article is a… Read More
2015-02-23 02:31
I have published here in teleSUR a new piece titled "Jamaica and the Politics of Debt Trap" that I wrote while conducting research in Kingston, Jamaica. A Spanish version of the article is a… Read More
2014-09-24 22:36
Read a new review here of my book by Hyppolite Pierre. He is a Political Science Adjunct Faculty at the American Military University and the author of Haiti, Rising Flames from Burning Ashes… Read More
2014-07-07 01:54
I published a short piece here titled "Cruise Ships and Global Capitalism" which will be part of a forthcoming journal article and a chapter in my forthcoming dissertation that l… Read More
2014-07-07 01:53
A review of my book Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti (2012, Monthly Review Press) has been published by Haitian scholar Boaz Anglade in the journal Race & Class… Read More
2014-07-07 01:53
A review of my book Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti (2012, Monthly Review Press) has been published by Haitian scholar Boaz Anglade in the journal Race & Class… Read More
2014-03-20 23:48
Published in the new special 10th anniversary issue of the journal Critical Perspectives on International Business is an interview that I conducted with political economist Grazia Ietto… Read More
2013-12-05 19:18
The new issue of ¡Presente!, the newspaper of the movement to close the School of the Americas (SOA), includes an abridged version of my recent article on Haiti's ex-army. The article… Read More
2013-12-05 19:17
See here for a new interview I did on KPFA Flashpoints Radio Read More
2013-12-05 19:14
These websites have published two versions of a new review of my book, see here and here Read More
2013-12-05 19:10
I have a new journal article (co-authored with scholars from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa) publ… Read More
2013-12-05 19:03
If you plan to be at any of the below events or will be in the area, I've listed below the upcoming talks I have planned.* On Thursday, June 7, at 2:45 in the St. Andrews room at the Caribbe… Read More
2013-12-05 19:03
If you plan to be at any of the below events or will be in the area, I've listed below the upcoming talks I have planned.* On Thursday, June 7, at 2:45 in the St. Andrews room at the Caribbe… Read More
2013-12-05 19:01
Below is a video I recorded of Griffith University Sociologists Dr. Georgina Murray and Dr. David Peetz examining if it is possible within the logic of fina… Read More
2013-12-05 19:00
Below is a video I recorded (apologies for the bad angles, as I have not figured out on my computer yet how to adjust these) of Dr. Jerry Harris, a political economist at DeVry University in… Read More
The Political Economy Approach Versus The Network Theory Approach To Understanding Global Capitalism
2013-12-05 18:59
Dr. Jerry Harris, political economist at DeVry University in Chicago,IL, gives a talk on transnational class formation and global capitalism. He looks in particular at the differences betwee… Read More
2013-12-05 18:58
Above is a talk and brief interview with Dr. George Liodakis that I recorded in September of 2011 at the first conference of Network for Critical Studies of Global Capitalism (NCSGC) in Prag… Read More
2013-12-05 18:57
Adelaide University's Dr. Kanishka Jayasuriya gives a keynote talk "The Savage Wars of the Capitalist Peace: The New Geoeconomics & the Rise of China". In the context of political scienc… Read More
2013-12-05 18:57
Adelaide University's Dr. Kanishka Jayasuriya gives a keynote talk "The Savage Wars of the Capitalist Peace: The New Geoeconomics & the Rise of China". In the context of political scienc… Read More
2013-12-05 18:56
I published a new op-ed on the Pambazuka Website (with an updated/corrected version published in the hardcopy of CounterPunch Magazine). The article provides some brief r… Read More
2013-12-05 18:54
Poll on deaths in Iraq ignored by British mediaIn May 2013 the reputable polling company ComRes asked a representative sample of the British public the following question: "How many Ira… Read More
2013-12-05 18:54
My book with Monthly Review Press was reviewed by Matthew J. Smith, senior lecturer in the Department of History and Archeology at the University of West Indies, Mona, in Jamaica, author of… Read More
2013-12-05 18:54
My book with Monthly Review Press was reviewed by Matthew J. Smith, senior lecturer in the Department of History and Archeology at the University of West Indies, Mona, in Jamaica, author of… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I was recently able to question IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) officials about the role of their organization in the aid embargo and the cutting off of potable water system assistance… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I have a new article titled "Haiti's excluded majority opposes army's re-creation" published in the Jamaica Observer. Read the article here. The full version of the article appears… Read More
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