I am a professor of economics at Hampshire College and a research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am also the founding director of Security in Context a research network on peace, conflict, and international affairs. Please visit http://www.securityincontext.org for more on that initiative. I have published in academic outlets such as the Journal of Development Economics and Applied Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Political Geography, Middle East Report, Forced Migration Review, and Critical Studies on Security. My last book was South-South Trade and Finance in the 21st Century: Rise of the South or a Second Great Divergence (co-authored with Firat Demir). I serve as an associate editor of the Review of Social Economy as well as the e-zine Jadaliyya and have served on the editorial committee of the Middle East Report. I am a founding member of the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies within the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS). I have previously served as a lead expert on the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of West Asia’s National Agenda for the Future of Syria program.