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Tom Reifer

Tom Reifer

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Tom Reifer

Associate Professor of Sociology and an Affiliated Faculty in the Ethnic Studies programme, as well as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, at the University of San Diego, California

Tom Reifer is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego and publishes widely on global peace and social justice issues. He has also been a long-time activist in the anti-nuclear movement as well as a rank and file trade union activist. His specialty is the study of large-scale, long-term social change and world-systems analysis. 

He is currently working on a series of book projects, including September 11th: Terrorism & the Globalization of Human Rights; Blown Away: US Militarism, Hurricane Katrina and the Challenges of the 21st Century, and Violence, Profits & Power.

Militarisation and Security; Nuclear policies; Gender; Ethnic studies; Globalisation; Social Movements; World Systems

English

Recent content by Tom Reifer

Occupy Wall Street: Origins & Prospects (31 Oct 2011)

The ancient discussion about the purposes of wealth and the conflict between oligarchy – rule of the rich – and democracy – the rule of the demos/the people comes to the fore once again with the Occupy protests.

9/11: Ten years later, who have we become? (13 Sep 2011)

Ten years and two wars later, Americans face the monetary and psychological costs of both militarism and Wall Street materialism, effectively bankrupting the country; not to mention the casualties of war at home, and in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Ten years later, who have we become? (13 Sep 2011)

A recommitment to King’s inspired vision might just be the best thing that could ever come out of the horrendous death and destruction of 9/11: a commitment to live, a commitment to love, and a commitment to peace and social justice.

Global Inequalities, Alternative Regionalism and the Future of Socialism (30 Aug 2011)

This paper examines global inequalities and the future of capitalism and socialism through an investigation of the oligarchic wealth on which the current global order is based and also looks at growing challenges to these social foundations of the present global system.

The Crime Decline & California’s Priorities in the 21st Century (1 Jun 2011)

That increasing numbers of California's youth end up in prison may yield some short term perceptions of declining crime rates, but what about the long-term education deficit?

The Road to Hell is paved with 'humanitarian interventions' (31 Mar 2011)

Will the outcome of the Western intervention in Libya be positive for its people? A look at history shows what came of 'good intentions' and promises in the past.

Guantanamo, Torture, and the Perversion of Justice: Obama’s New Executive Order (16 Mar 2011)

President Obama ratifies Bush (again): orders indefinite detention without charge for political prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other torture sites.

The “Arab 1848”: Reflections on US Policy & the Power of Nonviolence (24 Feb 2011)

The uprising in the Arab world shows, along with being a textbook example of nonviolence as a mechanism of democratic social change, the crude results of a US policy based on dictatorship promotion.

Obama versus the Polar Bears (26 Jan 2011)

President Obama’s decision comes despite the fact that US government and independent models predict an 80% chance Polar Bears will become mostly extinct by 2050, with total extinction this century without cuts in emissions.

Torture, War and Presidential Power: Thoughts on the Current Constitutional Crisis (12 Jan 2011)

Despite evidence that torture was used to extract false confessions in the lead up to the war in Iraq, the Obama administration continues to block efforts to abolish torture and restore justice and the rule of law.

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