Grahame Thompson is a Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) at the Open University

Open University

The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...

, serving also as a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School

Copenhagen Business School

Copenhagen Business School, also known as CBS, is situated in Copenhagen, Denmark. With more than 17,000 students and 1,300 staff members, CBS is also one of the largest business schools in Europe. CBS offers a wide range of business-oriented university programmes and a research environment...

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Training and career

Thompson trained as an economist and was originally employed by the Economics Department of the Open University. In 2000 he transferred to the Government and Politics department (which later be came POLIS). He has served as Head of Department from 2001 to 2003 and for 2007.

His most notable work has been on ‘globalization’. In his book, Globalization in Question

Globalization in Question

Globalization in question: the international economy and the possibilities of governance is a noted text on globalization by Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson. Published in 1996 by Polity Press.- Background :...

, written first with Paul Hirst

Paul Hirst

Paul Hirst was a British sociologist and political theorist. He became Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck, University of London....

(and in the 2009 new edition with Simon Bromley) he takes a basically sceptical position on globalization as been something which is substantially new.

Other Recent Work

‘The fate of territorial engineering: mechanisms of territorial power and post-liberal forms of international governance’ International Politics, vol.44, 2007.

‘Exploring sameness and difference: fundamentalisms and the future of globalization’ Globalizations, vol.3, no.4, 2006, and ‘Religious fundamentalisms, territories and “globalization”, Economy and Society, vol.36, no.1, 2007).