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Michael C Williams

Professor
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs,
University of Ottawa

Global Professorial Fellow
Institute for the Humanities
and Social Sciences,
Queen Mary University of London
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International Relations

Advancing an innovative Bourdieusian-inspired analysis of global politics as interaction between transnational fields, this book places development in the context of contemporary transformations in world order. It traces the history of development as a field of struggle from 1945 to the present, and argues that development is central to the emergence, maintenance, and transformation of world order.

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Global Right

The book is out! World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and World.

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Radical conservatives increasingly see themselves as part of a global movement with a shared agenda - united by their perceived persecution by the same liberal forces.

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New book. Coming soon!

Advancing an innovative Bourdieusian-inspired analysis of global politics as interaction between transnational fields, this book places development in the context of contemporary transformations in world order. It traces the history of development as a field of struggle from 1945 to the present, and argues that development is central to the emergence, maintenance, and transformation of world order.

January 2, 2026
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Event

Listen to our discussion of the rise of the radical right with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

November 8, 2025
Book talk in Glasgow

Please join us for this book talk in Glasgow, hosted by the Stevenson Trust for Citizenship and Scottish Council on Global Affairs

April 15, 2025

Recent Publications

The Emergence of a Global Radical Right

Current History 125(867) 2026: 3-8.

January 5, 2026
The Crisis of the Conservative International Order

International Affairs 101(3) 2025

May 1, 2025
International Relations and the Revolutionary Geopolitics of the European New Right

European Journal of International Relations 31(2) 2025: 311-335.

April 8, 2025
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