Randolph Persaud Prof Emeritus School of International Service
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- B.A. (Hons.); M.A.; PhD, York University
Queen's College, Guyana
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He holds a PhD in Political Science with a specialization in international relations and comparative politics. He also holds a B.A (Hons) in Political Science and World History. Professor Persaud has consulted with the U.S. State Department, the Council on Foreign Relations, Carnegie Corporation, the United Nations, the World Bank, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. He also served as Assistant Director for the Centre for International & Strategic Studies (Toronto), and Interim Director for the Council of the Americas, 51画鋼. He was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced International Theory at the University of Sussex 2021-2022. Before returning to Guyana, Professor Persaud served as Vice President of the Faculty at SIS (the largest school of international affairs in the world). He was also elected president of the same faculty.
Dr Persaud is author of Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy (State University of New York Press, 2001), Co-editor of Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations (Routledge, 2018), Co-editor, Violence and the Third World in International Relations (Routledge 2020); and Co-editor of three special issues of major journals in international affairs. He has published in the following refereed journals- International Affairs (Chatham House), Globalizations, Third World Quarterly, Alternatives, Jour. of Diplomacy and International Relations, International Politics Reviews, Millennium, International Studies Review, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Race and Class, Connecticut Journal of International Law, Latin American Politics and Society, Korea Review of International Studies, Tamkang Journal of International Affairs, Postcolonial Studies, and American Historical Review. He currently sits on the Editorial Board of Third World Quarterly, where he also previously served an Academic Editor.
He has given talks or participated in conferences or other academic events at the City University of New York (Graduate Centre), UCLA, Georgetown University, Howard University, New York University, University of Kentucky, University of Connecticut, Virginia Tech, Tufts University, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Brown University, Johns Hopkins University, Wake Forest University, University of the District of Columbia, University of Toronto; McMaster; Guelph University, Carleton University, University of Guyana, UWI (T&T); Queens University (Belfast), University of Sussex, City University of London, London School of Economics, University of Nottingham; University of Aberdeen, University of Warwick, University Trento (Italy), International Institute of Social Studies (The Hague), Chubu University (Nagoya, Japan), University of Science and Technology (Tokyo, Japan), Korea University, National Chengchi, (Taiwan).
Dr Randolph B. Persau is currently an Advisor on International Affairs in Office of the President, and Director of the National Defence Institute, Guyana. He is Professor Emeritus, School of International Service, 51画鋼, Washington DC
Dr. Persaud has published more than 1500 newspaper articles. He is a columnist for Demerara Waves. Tel: 592-697-1209; email rbpersaudop@gmail.com
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Research Interests
Dr. Persauds research and teaching interests are in the areas of race and international relations; political economy of globalization; human and global security, violence against the Third World; migration/immigration; and the general politics of culture and identity.
Selected Publications
R.B. Persaud and Alina Sajed (Eds.) (2018). Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations: Postcolonial Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
R.B. Persaud and Narendra Kumarakulasingam (Eds.) (2019). From Empire to Globalisation: Violence and the Making of Third World. Third World Quarterly: Special Issue. Vol. 40 No. 2, 2019.
R.P. Persaud and N. Kumarakulasingam, Violence and Ordering of the Third World, Third World Quarterly, Spring 2019.
R.B. Persaud, Killing the Third World: civilizational violence as U.S. grand strategy, Third World Quarterly, Spring 2019. DOI:
R.B. Persaud and Alina Sajed (2018). Introduction: Race, gender and culture in international relations: Postcolonial perspectives. In R.B. Persaud and Alina Sajed (Eds.) (2018). Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations: Postcolonial Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
S. Vucetic and R.B. Persaud (2018). Race in International relations, In R.B. Persaud and Alina Sajed (Eds.) (2018). Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations: Postcolonial Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
R.B. Persaud, (2018). Security studies, postcolonialism, and the Third World, In R.B. Persaud and Alina Sajed (Eds.) Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations: Postcolonial Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
R.B. Persaud (2019) Human Security in Alan Collins (ed.) Contemporary Security Issues. New York: Oxford University Press, 139-153 (Revised).
R.B. Persaud, (2017). You and Me Forever: The Shared Ancestry of Empire and the Burdens of Leaving, Journal of Narrative Politics. Vol. 3, No. 2, 97-107.
Persaud, R.B. (2017). The rise of Donald Trumps White Wall means that 2017 will not be a good year for politics. London School of Economics US Centre Blog.
Persaud, Randolph B. (2016) Neo-Gramscian Theory and Third Violence: A Time for Broadening Globalizations. Vol. 13, No. 5, 547-562.
R.B. Persaud and Christine B.N. Chin, (2016). From sexation to sexualization: dispersed submission in the racialized global sex industry, Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Vol. 29, No. 1, 270-289.
R.B. Persaud, (2016). The Racial Dynamic in International Relations: Some Thoughts on the Antecedents of Bandung, 1955, In Quynh Pham and R. Shilliam and (Eds.). Meanings of Bandung. New York: Routledge
R.B. Persaud (2016). The Reluctant Immigrant and Modernity In Naeem Inyatullah and E. Dauphinee (Eds.). Narrative Global Politics. New York: Routledge, 5-24.
Selected Publications
Research Interests
Race and international relations; critical political economy og globalization; migration/immigration; culture and identity; human and global security; violence the Third World