Grahame Thompson is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the

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, and a visiting professor at

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Training and career

Thompson was educated at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

where he obtained his MA in economics. He also has a

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from the

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_labe ...

. 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 became POLIS. He was 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: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance'' is a text on globalization by Paul Hirst, Grahame Thompson and Simon Bromley, published in 1996 by Polity Press. Background Hirst and Thompson note ...

'', written first with

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

Articles

* "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) * "Religious fundamentalisms, territories and 'globalization'", ''Economy and Society'', vol.36, no.1, (2007)

References

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