Globalization and Developing Nations

Professor Robert Fatton will discuss contending views of globalization and its impact on the politics, culture, and economy of developing nations. While globalization has generated spectacular rates of growth in certain areas of the world, particularly in Asia, it has also been accompanied by increasing levels of inequalities and poverty. For some analysts, globalization is a new phenomenon with the promise of world development and progress, for others it entails nothing more than a revamped imperialism. The lecture will examine current debates and controversies about the nature and consequences of globalization.

April 27, 2007 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Roanoke Higher Education Center 108 North Jefferson Street Roanoke, VA Directions		Series Sponsor
Professor Fatton quoted in the news: Haiti's Rev. Jean-Juste impatient with illness, suspension by Tania Valdemoro, January 27, 2007

About the Speaker

Robert Fatton Jr.
Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs in the Department of Politics

Professor Fatton served as Chair of the Department of Politics from 1997 to 2004. He is the author of several books and a large number of scholarly articles. His publications include: Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy (2002); Black Consciousness in South Africa (1986); The Making of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's Passive Revolution, 1975-1985 (1987); and Predatory Rule: State and Civil Society in Africa (1992). He is also co-editor with R. K. Ramazani of The Future of Liberal Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World (2004).

He just completed a book entitled: The Roots of Haitian Despotism, which will be published this summer. The book seeks to explain the historical and material roots of dictatorial regimes in Haiti.

Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, now an American citizen, Fatton studied in the mid 1970s in France, later earning a Bachelors Degree from Goshen College, Indiana, in 1976. He holds Masters and Doctoral Degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He has been teaching at the University of Virginia since 1981.