Owen Worth, PhD (Nottingham) is a lecturer of International Relations within the department of Politics and Public Administration. Prior to his appointment at Limerick he taught at the Nottingham Trent University. His research interests include neo-Gramscian and Critical approaches to Global Political Economy and Global Politics, Globalisation and its resistance, Post-Communist Russia and has also written on issues such as Health, Development and in particularly, Regionalism. He has had a number of edited books and articles published including: Resistance in the era of Austerity: Nationalism, the Failure of the Left and the Return to God: Zed Books, 2013, Hegemony, International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia', Ashgate in 2005; (with L. Pettiford), Foreign Policy of the Major Powers: Politics and Diplomacy since World War II. Russia and the Soviet Union, London: I. B. Tauris, 2007; (with J. Abbott) Critical Perspectives on International Political Economy, Palgrave, 2002; and (with P. Moore) Globalization and the New Semi-Peripheries, Palgrave, 2009. He is Managing Editor for the journal 'Capital and Class'.