Professor Gill is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, Communications and Culture at York University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Senior Associate Member of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University. His teaching is in the fields of International Relations, Global Political Economy and Social and Political Theory.

Professor Gill became the 2021 Killam Laureate in Social Sciences in recognition of his "scholarly excellence and impactful research on global affairs and international relations". “The Canada Council Killam Prize recognizes and celebrates the work of active researchers and inspiring scholars who have devoted their careers to pushing the boundaries of knowledge and finding solutions to the issues we face every day”.
https://killamlaureates.ca/laureates/stephen-gill-social-sciences/

In 2016 he was the recipient of the Hallsworth Visiting Research Chair in Global Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, and honoured with the following citation:
“Professor Gill is a world leading scholar of global political economy, political and social theory, international relations and law and cultural studies. His important work has also addressed US hegemony, imperialism and strategy as well as transatlantic and ‘trilateral’ (US-EU-Japan) relations and European integration.”

Stephen Gill was elected Vice-President of the 7500-member International Studies Association (ISA) in 2003, and subsequently elected as the ISA’s youngest-ever Distinguished Senior Scholar in International Political Economy in 2006 for his career contributions and research leadership.

In 2009 Gill was named as one of the top 50 all-time thinkers in International relations in Martin Griffiths, Steven C. Roach, M. Scott Solomon, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations (New York Routledge 2009) and the chapter devoted to his work is included in the section on critical theory, alongside such figures such as Antonio Gramsci, Jurgen Habermas and Robert W. Cox.

Gill has been the recipient of many fellowships (including two Fulbright awards) and several Visiting Chairs including at Warwick University (UK); University of Tokyo; Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama; University of California, Los Angeles; New York University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2009-10 he was the inaugural Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Research Professor for the Study of Contemporary Society and Social Justice at the Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki where he hosted the inaugural Helsinki Symposium and also made a series of podcasts and videocasts on contemporary intellectual and political matters. (For details see http://stephengill.com/news/).
Gill is also an award-winning teacher, mentor and supervisor of several generations of York graduate and undergraduate students. Three of his doctoral students have won the prestigious York Faculty of Graduate Studies award for the best dissertation defended in their graduating year; three of his current PhD students (all of whom came to York expressly to work with him) are in receipt of prestigious SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier doctoral fellowships.
Peer Reviewed Publications:
22 peer-reviewed refereed books published, or republished in second editions/new formats and translations including a special book-length edited edition of a scholarly journal; plus a further 7 research monographs; 63 articles; 93 chapters, essays and encyclopaedia entries; and over 92 refereed conference papers, plus many other non-refereed papers, newspaper articles, book reviews, blogs, interviews, podcasts, videocasts and commentaries.

Led a large number of collaborative, funded research projects. Publications have been translated into many modern languages including French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Finnish, Chinese and particularly Japanese.

His Power and Resistance in the New World Order (Palgrave 2003/2008/2013) won the Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice, the academic journal of the 65,000-member American Library Association. Other widely cited works include: Power, Production and Social Reproduction: Human In/security in the Global Political Economy, with feminist thinker Isabella Bakker (Palgrave 2003/2004); Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations (Cambridge University Press 1993/2011); American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission (Cambridge University Press 1991/2010). Finally, The Global Political Economy: Perspectives, Problems and Policies, with development economist David Law (Johns Hopkins University Press 1988) which was a best seller that defined this field of study; it was also adopted as a text for graduate and upper level undergraduate courses at over 500 universities world-wide.
Recent works include: Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012; a second enlarged edition of Gill, editor and contributor, Globalization , Democratization and Multilateralism was published in October 2013 and selected as an ‘International Political Economy Classic’ by Palgrave Macmillan. New Constitutionalism and World Order (Cambridge University Press 2014 & 2015 with lawyer Claire Cutler, editors and contributors, was nominated by Cambridge for the Grawemeyer Award in World Order). Gill also published Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance: Re-imagining the Future (editor and contributor, Palgrave 2015 & 2016) and co-edited the book length special edition with Isabella Bakker (2020) Towards Variegated Social Reproduction in the journal Capital and Class, Vol. 43(4): 503-669.

Delivered 70 plenary/keynotes at conferences and conventions and 76 invited special public lectures at other universities.

Career citations as of 10 February 2025
Citations (Google Scholar) 20179 (3664 since 2020)
h-index 42 (28 since 2025)
Research Funding:
Since arriving at York in 1990, Gill has been the recipient of over $2 million in research funds, including eight major SSHRC research awards, funding many of his graduate research students. His recently funded SSHRC Insight Research, on Political and Economic Crises in Europe was ranked 1/105 in the national competition.

Selected Professional Leadership (Organization and Public Outreach):
(1) Co-founder and organizer in 2017 with I.C. Bakker of the Northern Intellectual Powerhouse Group, a research network of faculty, postdoctoral and doctoral researchers at York, Montreal, Memorial; and the following UK Universities: Manchester, Leeds, Leeds Beckett, Derby, Sheffield and Liverpool.
(2) Organized, funded and led as Principal Investigator the Research Program (2010-15), “New Constitutionalism, World Order and Global Governance”. This integrated teaching and training, a research workshop and public outreach. It produced two volumes and two new blended courses offered in Summer 2013 and 2015. Its main components were as follows:
(A) International Graduate Summer School in International Political Economy and Ecology for 25 York and visiting students. See https://vimeo.com/24030477
(B) A one-day Public Lecture Event The Future of Global Governance? Attended by over 250 people in May 2011 held at Schulich School of Business, bringing top scholars within the field to York. See http://www.yorku.ca/lefutur/.
This resulted in Stephen Gill (2015/16) editor & contributor, Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance: Reimagining the Future (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave).
(C) SSHRC/York Funded International Workshop with 35 participants at York on New Constitutionalism and World Order. May-June 2011. See: http://ocs.library.yorku.ca/index.php/ncwo/ncwo
This resulted in Stephen Gill and Claire Cutler, editors and contributors New Constitutionalism and World Order (Cambridge University Press 2014/15).
(3) 2012-15 Member, Distinguished Scholar Selection Committee, International Political Economy, International Studies Association.
(4) 2010-2014 Representative (Représentant), Academy of Social Sciences (Académie des Sciences Sociales) Academy II (Académie II), Committee on International Affairs, Royal Society of Canada.

Selected Community Contributions, Policy Advice, Media and Outreach:
(1) Podcast interview: Governing the world — A critical look at the current state of global governance. Interviewed by Emily Tamkin, journalist for the Washington Post. Posted 21 January 2020. For Brill publishers’ Humanities Matter campaign, “stemming from our belief that the Humanities, Social Sciences and International Law are vital areas of scholarship for addressing today’s global challenges”. Based on questions arising from my article ‘Global Governance “As It Was, Is and Ought to Be”’ Global Governance (2019) Vol. 25, No. 3: 371-92.
https://blog.brill.com/humanitiesmatter/stephen_gill_on_global_governance.html
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/show/5fCPRnS448Pwo4aFz75zHD
Publisher’s link to the article:
https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/25/3/article-p371_3.xml
(2) In June 2017 presented on global governance and the challenges of right-wing nationalism and populism at a special symposium involving academics, business, foundation, political and government representatives at the initiative of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(3) Participated in UK public symposium on Brexit and its implications at the British International Studies Association, Leeds, UK, October 2016 and offered various media consultations and TV interviews on Brexit and European politics during 2016-17, e.g. publication of extensive interview ‘The EU and the development of disciplinary neo-liberalism’ Efimerida ton Syntakton (The Journal of the Editors). Interviewed and translated into Greek by Tsakiroglou Tassos, Political Editor, Athens, Greece. Published 23 April 2017.
(4) Opening Plenary address & follow up discussions and video presentations to public conference involving European media, unions, political activists and policy makers (representing over 400 organizations): EU Trade Policy at the Crossroads: between Economic Liberalism and Democratic Challenges, 4–6 February 2016, Centre for International Development, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria. See: http://stephengill.com/news/2016/04/eu-trade-policy-at-the-crossroads-vienna-4-6-february-2016.html
(5) Publication directed at health practitioners and leaders: Stephen Gill & Solomon R Benatar (2016). ‘Global Health Governance and Global Power: A Critical Commentary on The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission Report.’ International Journal of Health Services. Vol. 46 (2): 346–365. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294920344_Global_Health_Governance_and_Global_Power_A_Critical_Commentary_on_the_Lancet-University_of_Oslo_Commission_Report
(6) Opening presentation & discussion with medical practitioners, academics and policy makers, ‘Global Leadership, Organic Crisis and Global Health Governance’, Leadership in Global Health Governance Workshop, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK, January 16, 2013.
(7) Plenary speaker, to symposium for medical practitioners (doctors, nurses), academics and policy makers, ‘The Global Political Economy and Global Health’. 9th Annual Global Health Symposium: Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Joint Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 November 2011.
(8) Plenary speaker, ‘Towards a New Way of Thinking About Global Health.’ 9th Annual Global Health Symposium: Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Joint Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 November 2011.

Personal Website and Blog/Other Outreach (to be updated):

April 2009 personal website launched with biographical and scholarly information, podcasts and videos of some recent public lectures and presentations, postings on current policy issues, events and developments. To be updated and enlarged in 2020. See http://www.stephengill.com/

Recent Peer Reviewed Publications:

Recent Books:
1. Isabella Bakker & Stephen Gill, Editors and contributors. (2020) Towards Variegated Social Reproduction. Capital and Class, [Special book length edition] 43(4): 503-669. https://DOI:10.1177/030981681980783

2. Stephen Gill, editor and contributor (2016) Globalization, Democratization and Multilateralism. (Tokyo, United Nations University Press; London & New York, Palgrave Macmillan). 328 pages, index. Second expanded edition with a new Preface & Foreword. Selected and published as a Palgrave Classic in International Political Economy (chosen as one of the best books published in International Political Economy over the past 30 years). http://us.macmillan.com/globalizationdemocratizationandmultilateralism-1/StephenGill
3. Stephen Gill (2015/paperback edition 2016) editor and contributor, Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance: Reimagining the Future. (London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan). 272 pages, including index. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/critical-perspectives-on-the-crisis-of-global-governance-stephen-gill/?K=9781137441393
4. Stephen Gill and Claire Cutler, editors and contributors (2014/paperback 2015) New Constitutionalism and World Order. (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press). 386 pages, including glossary & index. Also available as Adobe E-book Reader. http://www.cambridge.org/fr/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/international-relations-and-international-organisations/new-constitutionalism-and-world-order
5. Stephen Gill (2013) Power and Resistance in the New World Order. (London & New York. Macmillan-Palgrave). 320 pages including index. Digital Edition. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=292559
6. Stephen Gill (2012) editor and contributor, Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press). 346 pages, including glossary & index. UK Print Publication: UK November 2011, North America February 2012. Online Publication: June 2012. Published in both hard and paperback. Formats: http://www.cambridge.org/fr/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/international-relations-and-international-organisations/global-crises-and-crisis-global-leadership

Recent Refereed Journal Articles

1. ‘Gobernanza global: “Cómo era, es y debería ser”. Una reflexión crítica’ (2020 ). Translated into Spanish by Gonzalo Morayta, Ariel Elbaz, Jorge Valenzuela. Foro Internacional (Journal of El Colegio de México). Vol. LX, 4, No. 42: 1261-1294.

2. Solomon R Benatar & Stephen Gill (2020) ‘Universal Access to Healthcare: The Case of South Africa in the Comparative Global Context of the Late Anthropocene Era’. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, X(x), 1–6. https://Doi 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.28. See http://www.ijhpm.com/

3. Isabella Bakker & Stephen Gill (2020). ‘Rethinking power, production, and social reproduction: Toward variegated social reproduction.’ Capital and Class, 43(4): 503-524. https://DOI:10.1177/030981681980783

4. Stephen Gill & Solomon R. Benatar (2020). ‘Reflections on the Political Economy of Planetary Health.’ Review of International Political Economy. Vol. 27 (1): 1-25: 167-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2019.1607769

5. ‘Critical International Relations and the Global Organic Crisis.’ (2020). In Handbook of Critical International Relations. Edited by Steven C. Roach. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020: 202-220. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112895.00020

6. Solomon R Benatar, David Sanders & Stephen Gill (2020). The global politics of health care reform. In the Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics. Edited by Colin McInnes, Kelley Lee and Jeremy Youde. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 445-468. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190456818.013.27. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/abstract/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190456818.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190456818-e-27?rskey=RN0AM5&result=2

7. ‘Global Governance ‘“As it was, is and ought to be”: A critical reflection.’ (2019) Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organization, 25(3): 371-392.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/19426720-02503003

8. ‘Toward Planetary Governance?’ (2019). Global Affairs. Vol. 5(2): 131-137. Journal of the European International Studies Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2019.1614266

9. ‘Market Civilization, Global Dispossession and Planetary Political Agency: A reply to Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro and Nivi Manchanda’ (2019). Global Affairs. Vol.5(2): 149-153. https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2019.1632409

10. Solomon R Benatar, Ross Upshur & Stephen Gill (2018). ‘Understanding the relationship between ethics, neoliberalism and power as a step towards improving the health of people and our planet’. The Anthropocene Review Vol. 5 (2): 155-176. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019618760934

11. ‘The Trilateral Commission Revisited’ (2018). Contribution to Roundtable Review and Debate: Dino Knudsen, The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance: Informal Elite Diplomacy, 1972-82 (London and New York, Routledge 2016). Other participants: Professors Giles Scott-Smith (University of Leiden, Netherlands), Laurent Cesari, Université d’Artois, France), Akira Iriye (Emeritus Harvard University and Dr. Dino Knudsen (Museum Mosede Fort, Denmark). H-Diplo Vol. XIX, No. 30 (2018): 1-24; my contribution: 9-14. Published online 16 April 2018. URL: http://www.tiny.cc/Roundtable-XIX-30

12. ‘A Dialectic of Utopia/Dystopia in the Public Imagination of the 21st Century’ (2017). Global-e: 21st Century Global Dynamics. Vol. 10 (27): 1-6. http://www.21global.ucsb.edu/global-e/april-2017/dialectic-utopiadystopia-public-imagination-21st-century

13. Stephen Gill and Solomon R Benatar (2017). ‘History, Structure and Agency in Global Health Governance: Comment on “Global Health Governance Challenges 2016–Are We Ready?”’ International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Vol. 5 (10): 1-5. DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.119

14. ‘European Crisis, the “Silent Revolution” and Transnational Class Formations’ (2017). Critical Sociology. Vol. 43 (4-5): 635-651. In a special edition of the journal, ‘Neoliberalism Since the Crisis’ edited by Damien Cahill (University of Sydney, Australia) and Alfredo Saad-Filho (SOAS, University of London, UK). https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920516656920

15. Stephen Gill & Solomon R Benatar (2016). ‘Global Health Governance and Global Power: A Critical Commentary on The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission Report.’ International Journal of Health Services. Vol. 46 (2): 346–365. DOI: 10.1177/0020731416631734

16. ‘Global Organic Crisis and Geopolitics’ (2015). Nankai Journal (Humanities and Social Science Edition), Vol. 60 (6): 1-8. (ISSN 1001-4667). In Chinese (Mandarin), translated by Rui He:［加］斯蒂芬·吉尔：《全球系统性危机与地缘政治学》，何睿 译，《南开学报》（哲学社会科学版），2015年第6期，第1-8页。This is an expanded and revised version of the article listed immediately below.
17. ‘Europe and the Geopolitics of Global Organic Crisis (2015).’ In Greek, Translated by Iraklis Oikonomou. Utopia - Review of Theory and Culture. April-May, Νo. 111: 25-36. English version of the above published online in AnalyzeGreece! June 5, 2015: http://www.analyzegreece.gr/topics/greece-europe/item/231-stephen-gill-the-geopolitics-of-global-organic-crisis

Recent peer reviewed essays and chapters

1. Stephen Gill, Isabella Bakker & Dillon Wamsley (2021). ‘Morbid Symptoms, Organic Crisis and Enclosures of the Commons: Global health since the 2008 world economic crisis’. In Solomon R. Benatar and Gillian Brock, editors, Global Health: Ethical Challenges (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press): 242-255.

2. Isabella Bakker, Stephen Gill & Dillon Wamsley (2021). ‘Towards a new common sense: the need for new paradigms of global health’. In S.R. Benatar and G. Brock, editors, Global Health: Ethical Challenges (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press): 470-476.

3. Solomon R. Benatar, Ross Upshur & Stephen Gill (2021). ‘Neoliberalism, power relations, ethics and global health’. In S.R. Benatar and G. Brock, editors, Global Health: Ethical Challenges (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press): 230-240.

4. ‘A Dialectic of Utopia/Dystopia in the Public Imagination of the 21st Century’ (2020). In Public Imagination: A Political and Ethical Imperative. Edited by Victor Faessel, Richard A. Falk and Michael Curtin. London and New York: Routledge.

5. ‘Progressive politische Handeln und die globale organische Krise’ (2017). [Progressive Political Action and the Global Organic Crisis]. In Lukas Schmidt & Sabine Schröder, editors and translators. Entwicklungstheorien: Klassiker, Kritik und Alternativen [Development Theories: Classics, Criticism and Alternatives]. Wien: Mandelbaum Verlag/Mattersburg Circle & Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna: 284-90.

6. ‘Critical Global Political Economy and Organic Crisis’ (2016). In Alan Cafruny, Leila Talani and Gonzalo Pozo Martin, editors. Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave 2016): 29-48.

7. Preface and ‘Reimagining the Future – Some Critical Reflections.’ (2015/16). In Stephen Gill, editor & contributor, Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance: Reimagining the Future. (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave): x, 1-23.

8. ‘At the Crossroads of History: Radical Imaginaries and the Crisis of Global Governance.’ (2015/16). In Stephen Gill, editor & contributor, Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance: Reimagining the Future. (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave): 181-99.

9. ‘An Archaeology of the Future, to be Excavated by the Post-Modern Prince?’ (2015). Foreword to David Kreps, editor, Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment (Farnham, UK: Ashgate): xiii-xviii.

10. Stephen Gill and A. Claire Cutler (2014/15). ‘New Constitutionalism and World Order: General Introduction’. 1-22

11. ‘Market Civilization, New Constitutionalism and World Order’ (2014/15). 29-44

12. Stephen Gill and A. Claire Cutler, ‘Glossary’; ‘Appendix’ (2014/15). 313-27

# 10-12: All in Gill and Cutler, editors and contributors, New Constitutionalism and World Order (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 2014/15).

13. Solomon R Benatar, Stephen Gill & Isabella Bakker, ‘Global Heath and the Global Economic Crisis.’ (2013). In Michael Grodin, Daniel Tarantola, Sofia Gruskin and George Annas (editors), Health and Human Rights in a Changing World (London: Routledge). 487-500.

14. ‘Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership’ (2012). 1-20

15. ‘Leaders and Led in an Era of Global Crises’ (2012). 23-37

16. ‘Organic Crisis, Global Leadership and Progressive Alternatives’ (2012). 233-53

17. ‘Glossary’ (2012). 255-58

# 14-17: All in Stephen Gill (editor) Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Earlier publications are listed in "Publications" tag.
For other updated information on activities and publications please visit personal website: www.stephengill.com.

Research Interests

• Elected Senior Associate Member, St Anthony's College, Oxford - 1992
• Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada - 2003
• Elected Vice-President of the International Studies Association - 2003
• Elected Fulbright Chair In Sociology, New York University - 2004
• Elected Distinguished Senior Scholar in International Political Economy, International Studies Association - 2006
• Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice, the academic journal of the 65,000-member American Library Association, for "Power and Resistance in the New World Order" (Palgrave 2008) - 2008
• Elected Inaugural Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Research Professor for the Study of Contemporary Society and Social Justice at the Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki - 2009
• SSHRC Research Grants (7 in total) - 1993-2012
• SSHRC Insight Research Grant ranked 1/105 - 2013
• Elected Hallsworth Visiting Research Chair in Global Studies, University of Manchester - 2016
• Killam Laureate in Social Sciences, Canada Council for the Arts - 2021
• York President’s Award for Distinguished Research - 2022

Approach to Teaching

My approach rests upon providing interactive, interesting and challenging courses that involve reading and debating cutting-edge publications and ideas. My approach involves clear expectations for supervision and training. Three of the doctoral students I supervised won the York University-wide prize for the best PhD submitted in academic year they defended their dissertation (respectively in 1995, 2004 and 2011). I have received three Certificates of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching from York`s Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning; I was also placed on the York University Political Science Honour Roll for teaching, as one of the department’s best teachers.

Upcoming Courses

Professor Gill is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, Communications and Culture at York University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Senior Associate Member of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University. His teaching is in the fields of International Relations, Global Political Economy and Social and Political Theory.

Professor Gill became the 2021 Killam Laureate in Social Sciences in recognition of his "scholarly excellence and impactful research on global affairs and international relations". “The Canada Council Killam Prize recognizes and celebrates the work of active researchers and inspiring scholars who have devoted their careers to pushing the boundaries of knowledge and finding solutions to the issues we face every day”.
https://killamlaureates.ca/laureates/stephen-gill-social-sciences/

In 2016 he was the recipient of the Hallsworth Visiting Research Chair in Global Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, and honoured with the following citation:
“Professor Gill is a world leading scholar of global political economy, political and social theory, international relations and law and cultural studies. His important work has also addressed US hegemony, imperialism and strategy as well as transatlantic and ‘trilateral’ (US-EU-Japan) relations and European integration.”

Stephen Gill was elected Vice-President of the 7500-member International Studies Association (ISA) in 2003, and subsequently elected as the ISA’s youngest-ever Distinguished Senior Scholar in International Political Economy in 2006 for his career contributions and research leadership.

In 2009 Gill was named as one of the top 50 all-time thinkers in International relations in Martin Griffiths, Steven C. Roach, M. Scott Solomon, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations (New York Routledge 2009) and the chapter devoted to his work is included in the section on critical theory, alongside such figures such as Antonio Gramsci, Jurgen Habermas and Robert W. Cox.

Gill has been the recipient of many fellowships (including two Fulbright awards) and several Visiting Chairs including at Warwick University (UK); University of Tokyo; Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama; University of California, Los Angeles; New York University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2009-10 he was the inaugural Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Research Professor for the Study of Contemporary Society and Social Justice at the Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki where he hosted the inaugural Helsinki Symposium and also made a series of podcasts and videocasts on contemporary intellectual and political matters. (For details see http://stephengill.com/news/).
Gill is also an award-winning teacher, mentor and supervisor of several generations of York graduate and undergraduate students. Three of his doctoral students have won the prestigious York Faculty of Graduate Studies award for the best dissertation defended in their graduating year; three of his current PhD students (all of whom came to York expressly to work with him) are in receipt of prestigious SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier doctoral fellowships.
Peer Reviewed Publications:
22 peer-reviewed refereed books published, or republished in second editions/new formats and translations including a special book-length edited edition of a scholarly journal; plus a further 7 research monographs; 63 articles; 93 chapters, essays and encyclopaedia entries; and over 92 refereed conference papers, plus many other non-refereed papers, newspaper articles, book reviews, blogs, interviews, podcasts, videocasts and commentaries.

Led a large number of collaborative, funded research projects. Publications have been translated into many modern languages including French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Finnish, Chinese and particularly Japanese.

His Power and Resistance in the New World Order (Palgrave 2003/2008/2013) won the Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice, the academic journal of the 65,000-member American Library Association. Other widely cited works include: Power, Production and Social Reproduction: Human In/security in the Global Political Economy, with feminist thinker Isabella Bakker (Palgrave 2003/2004); Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations (Cambridge University Press 1993/2011); American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission (Cambridge University Press 1991/2010). Finally, The Global Political Economy: Perspectives, Problems and Policies, with development economist David Law (Johns Hopkins University Press 1988) which was a best seller that defined this field of study; it was also adopted as a text for graduate and upper level undergraduate courses at over 500 universities world-wide.
Recent works include: Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012; a second enlarged edition of Gill, editor and contributor, Globalization , Democratization and Multilateralism was published in October 2013 and selected as an ‘International Political Economy Classic’ by Palgrave Macmillan. New Constitutionalism and World Order (Cambridge University Press 2014 & 2015 with lawyer Claire Cutler, editors and contributors, was nominated by Cambridge for the Grawemeyer Award in World Order). Gill also published Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance: Re-imagining the Future (editor and contributor, Palgrave 2015 & 2016) and co-edited the book length special edition with Isabella Bakker (2020) Towards Variegated Social Reproduction in the journal Capital and Class, Vol. 43(4): 503-669.

Delivered 70 plenary/keynotes at conferences and conventions and 76 invited special public lectures at other universities.

Career citations as of 10 February 2025
Citations (Google Scholar) 20179 (3664 since 2020)
h-index 42 (28 since 2025)
Research Funding:
Since arriving at York in 1990, Gill has been the recipient of over $2 million in research funds, including eight major SSHRC research awards, funding many of his graduate research students. His recently funded SSHRC Insight Research, on Political and Economic Crises in Europe was ranked 1/105 in the national competition.

Selected Professional Leadership (Organization and Public Outreach):
(1) Co-founder and organizer in 2017 with I.C. Bakker of the Northern Intellectual Powerhouse Group, a research network of faculty, postdoctoral and doctoral researchers at York, Montreal, Memorial; and the following UK Universities: Manchester, Leeds, Leeds Beckett, Derby, Sheffield and Liverpool.
(2) Organized, funded and led as Principal Investigator the Research Program (2010-15), “New Constitutionalism, World Order and Global Governance”. This integrated teaching and training, a research workshop and public outreach. It produced two volumes and two new blended courses offered in Summer 2013 and 2015. Its main components were as follows:
(A) International Graduate Summer School in International Political Economy and Ecology for 25 York and visiting students. See https://vimeo.com/24030477
(B) A one-day Public Lecture Event The Future of Global Governance? Attended by over 250 people in May 2011 held at Schulich School of Business, bringing top scholars within the field to York. See http://www.yorku.ca/lefutur/.
This resulted in Stephen Gill (2015/16) editor & contributor, Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance: Reimagining the Future (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave).
(C) SSHRC/York Funded International Workshop with 35 participants at York on New Constitutionalism and World Order. May-June 2011. See: http://ocs.library.yorku.ca/index.php/ncwo/ncwo
This resulted in Stephen Gill and Claire Cutler, editors and contributors New Constitutionalism and World Order (Cambridge University Press 2014/15).
(3) 2012-15 Member, Distinguished Scholar Selection Committee, International Political Economy, International Studies Association.
(4) 2010-2014 Representative (Représentant), Academy of Social Sciences (Académie des Sciences Sociales) Academy II (Académie II), Committee on International Affairs, Royal Society of Canada.

Selected Community Contributions, Policy Advice, Media and Outreach:
(1) Podcast interview: Governing the world — A critical look at the current state of global governance. Interviewed by Emily Tamkin, journalist for the Washington Post. Posted 21 January 2020. For Brill publishers’ Humanities Matter campaign, “stemming from our belief that the Humanities, Social Sciences and International Law are vital areas of scholarship for addressing today’s global challenges”. Based on questions arising from my article ‘Global Governance “As It Was, Is and Ought to Be”’ Global Governance (2019) Vol. 25, No. 3: 371-92.
https://blog.brill.com/humanitiesmatter/stephen_gill_on_global_governance.html
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/show/5fCPRnS448Pwo4aFz75zHD
Publisher’s link to the article:
https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/25/3/article-p371_3.xml
(2) In June 2017 presented on global governance and the challenges of right-wing nationalism and populism at a special symposium involving academics, business, foundation, political and government representatives at the initiative of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(3) Participated in UK public symposium on Brexit and its implications at the British International Studies Association, Leeds, UK, October 2016 and offered various media consultations and TV interviews on Brexit and European politics during 2016-17, e.g. publication of extensive interview ‘The EU and the development of disciplinary neo-liberalism’ Efimerida ton Syntakton (The Journal of the Editors). Interviewed and translated into Greek by Tsakiroglou Tassos, Political Editor, Athens, Greece. Published 23 April 2017.
(4) Opening Plenary address & follow up discussions and video presentations to public conference involving European media, unions, political activists and policy makers (representing over 400 organizations): EU Trade Policy at the Crossroads: between Economic Liberalism and Democratic Challenges, 4–6 February 2016, Centre for International Development, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria. See: http://stephengill.com/news/2016/04/eu-trade-policy-at-the-crossroads-vienna-4-6-february-2016.html
(5) Publication directed at health practitioners and leaders: Stephen Gill & Solomon R Benatar (2016). ‘Global Health Governance and Global Power: A Critical Commentary on The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission Report.’ International Journal of Health Services. Vol. 46 (2): 346–365. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294920344_Global_Health_Governance_and_Global_Power_A_Critical_Commentary_on_the_Lancet-University_of_Oslo_Commission_Report
(6) Opening presentation & discussion with medical practitioners, academics and policy makers, ‘Global Leadership, Organic Crisis and Global Health Governance’, Leadership in Global Health Governance Workshop, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK, January 16, 2013.
(7) Plenary speaker, to symposium for medical practitioners (doctors, nurses), academics and policy makers, ‘The Global Political Economy and Global Health’. 9th Annual Global Health Symposium: Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Joint Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 November 2011.
(8) Plenary speaker, ‘Towards a New Way of Thinking About Global Health.’ 9th Annual Global Health Symposium: Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Joint Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 November 2011.

Personal Website and Blog/Other Outreach (to be updated):

April 2009 personal website launched with biographical and scholarly information, podcasts and videos of some recent public lectures and presentations, postings on current policy issues, events and developments. To be updated and enlarged in 2020. See http://www.stephengill.com/

Recent Peer Reviewed Publications:

Recent Books:
1. Isabella Bakker & Stephen Gill, Editors and contributors. (2020) Towards Variegated Social Reproduction. Capital and Class, [Special book length edition] 43(4): 503-669. https://DOI:10.1177/030981681980783

2. Stephen Gill, editor and contributor (2016) Globalization, Democratization and Multilateralism. (Tokyo, United Nations University Press; London & New York, Palgrave Macmillan). 328 pages, index. Second expanded edition with a new Preface & Foreword. Selected and published as a Palgrave Classic in International Political Economy (chosen as one of the best books published in International Political Economy over the past 30 years). http://us.macmillan.com/globalizationdemocratizationandmultilateralism-1/StephenGill
3. Stephen Gill (2015/paperback edition 2016) editor and contributor, Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance: Reimagining the Future. (London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan). 272 pages, including index. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/critical-perspectives-on-the-crisis-of-global-governance-stephen-gill/?K=9781137441393
4. Stephen Gill and Claire Cutler, editors and contributors (2014/paperback 2015) New Constitutionalism and World Order. (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press). 386 pages, including glossary & index. Also available as Adobe E-book Reader. http://www.cambridge.org/fr/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/international-relations-and-international-organisations/new-constitutionalism-and-world-order
5. Stephen Gill (2013) Power and Resistance in the New World Order. (London & New York. Macmillan-Palgrave). 320 pages including index. Digital Edition. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=292559
6. Stephen Gill (2012) editor and contributor, Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press). 346 pages, including glossary & index. UK Print Publication: UK November 2011, North America February 2012. Online Publication: June 2012. Published in both hard and paperback. Formats: http://www.cambridge.org/fr/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/international-relations-and-international-organisations/global-crises-and-crisis-global-leadership

Recent Refereed Journal Articles

1. ‘Gobernanza global: “Cómo era, es y debería ser”. Una reflexión crítica’ (2020 ). Translated into Spanish by Gonzalo Morayta, Ariel Elbaz, Jorge Valenzuela. Foro Internacional (Journal of El Colegio de México). Vol. LX, 4, No. 42: 1261-1294.

2. Solomon R Benatar & Stephen Gill (2020) ‘Universal Access to Healthcare: The Case of South Africa in the Comparative Global Context of the Late Anthropocene Era’. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, X(x), 1–6. https://Doi 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.28. See http://www.ijhpm.com/

3. Isabella Bakker & Stephen Gill (2020). ‘Rethinking power, production, and social reproduction: Toward variegated social reproduction.’ Capital and Class, 43(4): 503-524. https://DOI:10.1177/030981681980783

4. Stephen Gill & Solomon R. Benatar (2020). ‘Reflections on the Political Economy of Planetary Health.’ Review of International Political Economy. Vol. 27 (1): 1-25: 167-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2019.1607769

5. ‘Critical International Relations and the Global Organic Crisis.’ (2020). In Handbook of Critical International Relations. Edited by Steven C. Roach. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020: 202-220. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112895.00020

6. Solomon R Benatar, David Sanders & Stephen Gill (2020). The global politics of health care reform. In the Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics. Edited by Colin McInnes, Kelley Lee and Jeremy Youde. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 445-468. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190456818.013.27. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/abstract/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190456818.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190456818-e-27?rskey=RN0AM5&result=2

7. ‘Global Governance ‘“As it was, is and ought to be”: A critical reflection.’ (2019) Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organization, 25(3): 371-392.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/19426720-02503003

8. ‘Toward Planetary Governance?’ (2019). Global Affairs. Vol. 5(2): 131-137. Journal of the European International Studies Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2019.1614266

9. ‘Market Civilization, Global Dispossession and Planetary Political Agency: A reply to Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro and Nivi Manchanda’ (2019). Global Affairs. Vol.5(2): 149-153. https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2019.1632409

10. Solomon R Benatar, Ross Upshur & Stephen Gill (2018). ‘Understanding the relationship between ethics, neoliberalism and power as a step towards improving the health of people and our planet’. The Anthropocene Review Vol. 5 (2): 155-176. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019618760934

11. ‘The Trilateral Commission Revisited’ (2018). Contribution to Roundtable Review and Debate: Dino Knudsen, The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance: Informal Elite Diplomacy, 1972-82 (London and New York, Routledge 2016). Other participants: Professors Giles Scott-Smith (University of Leiden, Netherlands), Laurent Cesari, Université d’Artois, France), Akira Iriye (Emeritus Harvard University and Dr. Dino Knudsen (Museum Mosede Fort, Denmark). H-Diplo Vol. XIX, No. 30 (2018): 1-24; my contribution: 9-14. Published online 16 April 2018. URL: http://www.tiny.cc/Roundtable-XIX-30

12. ‘A Dialectic of Utopia/Dystopia in the Public Imagination of the 21st Century’ (2017). Global-e: 21st Century Global Dynamics. Vol. 10 (27): 1-6. http://www.21global.ucsb.edu/global-e/april-2017/dialectic-utopiadystopia-public-imagination-21st-century

13. Stephen Gill and Solomon R Benatar (2017). ‘History, Structure and Agency in Global Health Governance: Comment on “Global Health Governance Challenges 2016–Are We Ready?”’ International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Vol. 5 (10): 1-5. DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.119

14. ‘European Crisis, the “Silent Revolution” and Transnational Class Formations’ (2017). Critical Sociology. Vol. 43 (4-5): 635-651. In a special edition of the journal, ‘Neoliberalism Since the Crisis’ edited by Damien Cahill (University of Sydney, Australia) and Alfredo Saad-Filho (SOAS, University of London, UK). https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920516656920

15. Stephen Gill & Solomon R Benatar (2016). ‘Global Health Governance and Global Power: A Critical Commentary on The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission Report.’ International Journal of Health Services. Vol. 46 (2): 346–365. DOI: 10.1177/0020731416631734

16. ‘Global Organic Crisis and Geopolitics’ (2015). Nankai Journal (Humanities and Social Science Edition), Vol. 60 (6): 1-8. (ISSN 1001-4667). In Chinese (Mandarin), translated by Rui He:［加］斯蒂芬·吉尔：《全球系统性危机与地缘政治学》，何睿 译，《南开学报》（哲学社会科学版），2015年第6期，第1-8页。This is an expanded and revised version of the article listed immediately below.
17. ‘Europe and the Geopolitics of Global Organic Crisis (2015).’ In Greek, Translated by Iraklis Oikonomou. Utopia - Review of Theory and Culture. April-May, Νo. 111: 25-36. English version of the above published online in AnalyzeGreece! June 5, 2015: http://www.analyzegreece.gr/topics/greece-europe/item/231-stephen-gill-the-geopolitics-of-global-organic-crisis

Recent peer reviewed essays and chapters

1. Stephen Gill, Isabella Bakker & Dillon Wamsley (2021). ‘Morbid Symptoms, Organic Crisis and Enclosures of the Commons: Global health since the 2008 world economic crisis’. In Solomon R. Benatar and Gillian Brock, editors, Global Health: Ethical Challenges (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press): 242-255.

2. Isabella Bakker, Stephen Gill & Dillon Wamsley (2021). ‘Towards a new common sense: the need for new paradigms of global health’. In S.R. Benatar and G. Brock, editors, Global Health: Ethical Challenges (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press): 470-476.

3. Solomon R. Benatar, Ross Upshur & Stephen Gill (2021). ‘Neoliberalism, power relations, ethics and global health’. In S.R. Benatar and G. Brock, editors, Global Health: Ethical Challenges (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press): 230-240.

4. ‘A Dialectic of Utopia/Dystopia in the Public Imagination of the 21st Century’ (2020). In Public Imagination: A Political and Ethical Imperative. Edited by Victor Faessel, Richard A. Falk and Michael Curtin. London and New York: Routledge.

5. ‘Progressive politische Handeln und die globale organische Krise’ (2017). [Progressive Political Action and the Global Organic Crisis]. In Lukas Schmidt & Sabine Schröder, editors and translators. Entwicklungstheorien: Klassiker, Kritik und Alternativen [Development Theories: Classics, Criticism and Alternatives]. Wien: Mandelbaum Verlag/Mattersburg Circle & Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna: 284-90.

6. ‘Critical Global Political Economy and Organic Crisis’ (2016). In Alan Cafruny, Leila Talani and Gonzalo Pozo Martin, editors. Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave 2016): 29-48.

7. Preface and ‘Reimagining the Future – Some Critical Reflections.’ (2015/16). In Stephen Gill, editor & contributor, Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance: Reimagining the Future. (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave): x, 1-23.

8. ‘At the Crossroads of History: Radical Imaginaries and the Crisis of Global Governance.’ (2015/16). In Stephen Gill, editor & contributor, Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance: Reimagining the Future. (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave): 181-99.

9. ‘An Archaeology of the Future, to be Excavated by the Post-Modern Prince?’ (2015). Foreword to David Kreps, editor, Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment (Farnham, UK: Ashgate): xiii-xviii.

10. Stephen Gill and A. Claire Cutler (2014/15). ‘New Constitutionalism and World Order: General Introduction’. 1-22

11. ‘Market Civilization, New Constitutionalism and World Order’ (2014/15). 29-44

12. Stephen Gill and A. Claire Cutler, ‘Glossary’; ‘Appendix’ (2014/15). 313-27

# 10-12: All in Gill and Cutler, editors and contributors, New Constitutionalism and World Order (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 2014/15).

13. Solomon R Benatar, Stephen Gill & Isabella Bakker, ‘Global Heath and the Global Economic Crisis.’ (2013). In Michael Grodin, Daniel Tarantola, Sofia Gruskin and George Annas (editors), Health and Human Rights in a Changing World (London: Routledge). 487-500.

14. ‘Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership’ (2012). 1-20

15. ‘Leaders and Led in an Era of Global Crises’ (2012). 23-37

16. ‘Organic Crisis, Global Leadership and Progressive Alternatives’ (2012). 233-53

17. ‘Glossary’ (2012). 255-58

# 14-17: All in Stephen Gill (editor) Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Earlier publications are listed in "Publications" tag.
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Degrees

Professional Leadership

(1) Organized, funded and led as Principal Investigator the Research Program (2010-15), "New Constitutionalism, World Order and Global Governance". This integrated teaching and training, a research workshop and public outreach. It produced two volumes and two new blended courses offered in Summer 2013 and 2015. Its main components were as follows: (A) International Graduate Summer School in International Political Economy and Ecology for 25 York and visiting students. See https://vimeo.com/24030477 (B) A one-day Public Lecture Event The Future of Global Governance? Attended by over 250 people in May 2011 held at Schulich School of Business, bringing top scholars within the field to York. See http://www.yorku.ca/lefutur/. This later resulted in Stephen Gill (2015) editor & contributor, Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance: Reimagining the Future (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave). (C) Led SSHRC Funded International Workshop with 35 participants at York on New Constitutionalism and World Order. May-June 2011. See: http://ocs.library.yorku.ca/index.php/ncwo/ncwo. This resulted in Stephen Gill and Claire Cutler, editors and contributors New Constitutionalism and World Order (Cambridge University Press 2014). (2) 2012-15 Member, Distinguished Scholar Selection Committee, International Political Economy, International Studies Association. (3) 2010-2014 Representative (Représentant), Academy of Social Sciences (Académie des Sciences Sociales) Academy II (Académie II), Committee on International Affairs, Royal Society of Canada.

Community Contributions

(1) Opening Plenary address & discussion to public conference involving European media, unions, political activists and policy makers: EU Trade Policy at the Crossroads: between Economic Liberalism and Democratic Challenges, 4–6 February 2016, Centre for International Development, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria. (2) Opening presentation & discussion to medical practitioners, academics and policy makers, ‘Global Leadership, Organic Crisis and Global Health Governance’, Leadership in Global Health Governance Workshop, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK, January 16, 2013. (3) Plenary speaker, to symposium for medical practitioners (doctors, nurses), academics and policy makers, ‘The Global Political Economy and Global Health’. 9th Annual Global Health Symposium: Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Joint Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 November 2011. (4) Plenary speaker, ‘Towards a New Way of Thinking About Global Health.’ 9th Annual Global Health Symposium: Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Joint Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 November 2011.

Research Interests

Awards

• Elected Senior Associate Member, St Anthony's College, Oxford - 1992
• Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada - 2003
• Elected Vice-President of the International Studies Association - 2003
• Elected Fulbright Chair In Sociology, New York University - 2004
• Elected Distinguished Senior Scholar in International Political Economy, International Studies Association - 2006
• Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice, the academic journal of the 65,000-member American Library Association, for "Power and Resistance in the New World Order" (Palgrave 2008) - 2008
• Elected Inaugural Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Research Professor for the Study of Contemporary Society and Social Justice at the Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki - 2009
• SSHRC Research Grants (7 in total) - 1993-2012
• SSHRC Insight Research Grant ranked 1/105 - 2013
• Elected Hallsworth Visiting Research Chair in Global Studies, University of Manchester - 2016
• Killam Laureate in Social Sciences, Canada Council for the Arts - 2021
• York President’s Award for Distinguished Research - 2022

Approach to Teaching

My approach rests upon providing interactive, interesting and challenging courses that involve reading and debating cutting-edge publications and ideas. My approach involves clear expectations for supervision and training. Three of the doctoral students I supervised won the York University-wide prize for the best PhD submitted in academic year they defended their dissertation (respectively in 1995, 2004 and 2011). I have received three Certificates of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching from York`s Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning; I was also placed on the York University Political Science Honour Roll for teaching, as one of the department’s best teachers.

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