Academic Staff: A.J. Payne

Professor Tony Payne, BA, MA (Cambridge), PhD (Manchester)

Tony Payne

Professor

Telephone: +44 (0)114 222 1653
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 1717
Room: Elmfield Lodge, B3

Profile

Tony Payne joined the Department in 1985 and was promoted to Professor in 1993. He was Chairman of the Department between 1992 and 1995 and again between 1998 and 2001. He was the Director of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) from 1996 to 1999 and Co-Director from 2002 to 2004. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Social Sciences from June 2008 until August 2012. He is now co-director (with Colin Hay) of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI).

He read history and social and political science at Cambridge and subsequently studied at the University of the West Indies and at Manchester from where he received his PhD. He worked at Huddersfield before coming to Sheffield. His principal research interests are the politics of the Caribbean, international political economy and the politics of development. He was a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in 1989, was Hallsworth Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Manchester in 1995-6, was a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick between 1997-2006, and was Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London between 2002-6. He was Managing Editor of New Political Economy from 1995 to 2005. He was also Visiting Professor in the Department of Public Administration of City University Hong Kong in May 2005 and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University in January-April 2006.

Teaching

I have always relished the teaching that comes as a core part of being a 'Sheffield Academic'. I like lecturing, because it is in part about performing, and I like arguing and debating, which is really what seminars are about. Most 'knowledge' in the field of politics is contested and so our subject depends to a great extent on clarifying our thinking on important issues and of course understanding the positions of others. As I see it, that is at the heart of an education in politics. Teaching also involves meeting lots and lots of interesting people from all walks of life and all countries. Students are endlessly different and interesting and great fun to get to know. So I have always tried to promote a lively atmosphere of discussion in my classes and an informal enough atmosphere to encourage wide participation. When a seminar and a discussion takes off and the arguments flow, it is a hugely exciting experience. It is too much to expect that this happens in every session, because sometimes things just have to be explained and some tough plodding through difficult material is required. All that said, if I cannot make my students enthuse about the fascinating topics that we are lucky enough to be able to consider in lectures and seminars in politics then I am disappointed and feel that I have not done my job well enough. I want everyone to share some of the excitement about new debates, new events and new ideas that I still share. I am now one of the Directors of SPERI and so I am not doing any undergraduate or postgraduate teaching (although I do still have a couple of PhD students).

Current Research

His current research embraces three projects:

'North-South Relations'. This examines current definitions of, and relations between, 'North' and 'South' in the context of globalisation.
The Historical Evolution of Theories of Development. This examines the changing meaning attributed to the concept of development from the era of classical social theory to the present.
'The Group of 8, the Group of 20 and Global Development' This examines the role played by the G8 and G20 processes and, in particular, their annual heads of government summits, in charting the direction of global development.

Key Publications

Books

The Politics of the Caribbean Community 1961-79: Regional Integration amongst New States, Manchester University Press, Manchester/St Martin's Press, New York, 1980. x and 300 pp.
The International Crisis in the Caribbean, Croom Helm, London and Sydney/The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1984. x and 177 pp
Dependency under Challenge: The Political Economy of the Commonwealth Caribbean, edited with P K Sutton, Manchester University Press, Manchester and Dover, New Hampshire, 1984. xi and 295 pp
Grenada: Revolution and Invasion, with P K Sutton and A E Thorndike, Croom Helm, London and Sydney/St Martin's Press, New York, 1984. viii and 233 pp
Politics, Security and Development in Small States, edited with C Clarke, Allen & Unwin, London, Boston, Sydney and Wellington, 1987. xviii and 238 pp
Politics in Jamaica, Christopher Hurst, London/St Martin's Press, New York/Heinemann, Kingston, 1988. x and 200 pp. Revised edition, Ian Randle, Kingston/St Martin's Press, New York, 1994. xii and 223 pp
The Fallacies of Hope: The Post-colonial Record of the Commonwealth Third World, edited with J Mayall, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1990. 218 pp
Modern Caribbean Politics, edited with P K Sutton, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1993. xii and 332 pp
Size and Survival: The Politics of Security in the Small Island and Enclave Developing States of the Caribbean and the Pacific, edited with P K Sutton, Frank Cass, London, 1993. 200 pp
Regionalism and World Order, edited with A M Gamble, Macmillan, London, 1996. 282 pp
The New Political Economy of Globalisation, 2 volumes, edited with R Higgott, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2000. 571 pp and 589 pp
Charting Caribbean Development, with P K Sutton, Macmillan for the University of Warwick, London, and University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2001. x and 284 pp
The New Regional Politics of Development, edited, Palgrave, London, 2004. xiv and 290 pp
The Global Politics of Unequal Development, Palgrave, London, 2005. xii and 304pp.
Key Debates in New Political Economy,edited, Routledge, London, 2006.vii and 206pp
The Political History of CARICOM, Ian Randle, Kingston and Miami,2008.xxxvii and 306 pp
Development, with N Phillips, Polity, Cambridge, 2010. viii and 222pp

Monographs

Change in the Commonwealth Caribbean, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London 1981. vi and 58 pp
Jamaica: A Political Risk Analysis, Frost & Sullivan, Syracuse, New York, 1st Edition, 1987, 60 pp; 2nd edition, 1988, 62 pp; 3rd edition, 1989, 62 pp
The Foreign Policy of Non-Capitalist Development: The Case of Grenada, Sheffield Papers in International Studies No 3, March 1990. 42 pp
Governments, Intellectuals and International Relations: The Politics of the University of the West Indies 1968-84, Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, 1990. 25 pp
Caribbean International Relations beyond 1992: Between Europe and North America?, with P K Sutton, The West Indian Commission, Bridgetown, Barbados, 1991. 96 pp
Repositioning the Caribbean within Globalisation, with P K Sutton, Caribbean Paper No 1, The Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada, 2007. 29pp.
Living in a Less Unequal World: The Making of Renewed Progressive Global Policy, Institute for Public Policy Research, London, 2007. 13pp.
Caribbean Regional Governance and the Sovereignty/Statehood Problem, with M L Bishop, Caribbean Paper No 8, The Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada, 2010. 24pp.

Journal Articles

'From Michael with Love: The Nature of Socialism in Jamaica', Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Vol XIV, No 1, March 1976, pp 82-100
'Giants and Pygmies in the Caribbean', The World Today, Vol 36, No 8, August 1980, pp 288-95
'Revolutionary Politics in Grenada', The Round Table, No 280, October 1980, pp 381-85
'One University, Many Governments: Regional Integration, Politics and the University of the West Indies', Minerva, Vol XVIII, No 3, Autumn 1980, pp 474-98
'The Rise and Fall of Caribbean Regionalisation', Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol XIX, No 3, March 1981, pp 255-80
'Seaga's Jamaica After One Year', The World Today, Vol 37, No 11, November 1981, pp 434-40
'The CARICOM Summit', The World Today, Vol 39, No 2, February 1983, pp 39-42
'The Rodney Riots in Jamaica: The Background and Significance of the Events of October 1968', The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Vol XXI, No 2, July 1983, pp 158-74
'The Grenada Crisis in British Politics', The Round Table, No 292, October 1984, pp 403-10
'Whither CARICOM? The Performance and Prospects of Caribbean Integration in the 1980s', International Journal, Vol XL, No 2, Spring 1985, pp 207-28
'Violence and Protest in Jamaica', The Round Table, No 295, July 1985, pp 256-62
'Of Beauty, Vulnerability and Politics: Survival in the Caribbean', Third World Affairs 1987, pp 216-23
'Jamaica and Cuba 1959-86: A Caribbean Pas de Deux', The Round Table, No 302, April 1987, pp 184-98
'Orthodox Liberal Development in Jamaica: Theory and Practice', Third World Quarterly, Vol 10, No 3, July 1988, pp 1217-38
'University Students and Politics in Jamaica', The Round Table, No 310, April 1989, pp 207-22
'The Fiji Effect: A Review of Trends in South Pacific Politics', The Round Table, No 312, October 1989, pp 440-6
'The Belize Triangle: Relations with Britain, Guatemala and the United States', Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol 32, No 1, Spring 1990, pp 119-35
'The International Politics of the Gleneagles Agreement', The Round Table, No 320, October 1991, pp 417-30
'Commonwealth Caribbean Diplomacy: A New Strategy for the New World Order', with P K Sutton, Caribbean Affairs, Vol 5, No 2, April-June 1992, pp 47-63
'The 'New Manley' and the New Political Economy of Jamaica', Third World Quarterly, Vol 13, No 3, 1992, pp 463-74
'The Commonwealth Caribbean in the New World Order: Between Europe and North America?', with P K Sutton, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol 34, No 4, Winter 1992-3, pp 39-75
'Lilliput under Threat: The Security Problems of Small Island and Enclave Developing States', with P K Sutton, Political Studies. Vol XLI, No 4, December 1993, pp 579-93
'US Hegemony and the Reconfiguration of the Caribbean', Review of International Studies, Vol 20, No 2, April 1994, pp 149-168
'The Off-Limits Caribbean: The United States and the European Dependent Territories', with P K Sutton, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol 533, May 1994, pp 87-99
'Editorial: New Political Economy', with A M Gamble, A Hoogvelt, M Dietrich and M Kenny, New Political Economy, Vol 1, No 1, 1996, pp 5-11
'The New Politics of 'Caribbean America'', Third World Quarterly, Vol 19, No 2, 1998, pp 205-18
'The New Political Economy of Area Studies', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol 27, No 2, 1998, pp 253-73
'The Remapping of the Americas', Review of International Studies, Vol 25, No 3, 1999, pp 507-14
'Rethinking United States-Caribbean Relations: Towards a New Mode of Trans-territorial Governance', Review of International Studies, Vol 26, No 1, 2000, pp 69-82
'Reframing the Global Politics of Development', Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol 2, No 4, 2000, pp 369-79
'The Global Politics of Development: Towards a New Research Agenda', Progress in Development Studies, Vol 1, No 1, 2001, pp 5-19
'Resetting the Table for Commonwealth Studies into the 21st Century', The Round Table, No 367, 2002, pp 657-61
'Small States in the Global Politics of Development', The Round Table, No 376, 2004, pp. 623-35
'Blair, Brown and the Gleneagles Agenda: Making Poverty History, or Confronting the Global Politics of Unequal Development?', International Affairs, Vol 82 No 5, 2006, pp 917-35
'The End of Green Gold? Comparative Development Options and Strategies in the Eastern Caribbean Banana-Producing Islands', Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol 41 No 3, 2006, pp 25-46
‘The G8 in a Changing Global Order’, International Affairs, Vol 84, No 3, May 2008, pp 519-33.
‘After Bananas: The IMF and the Politics of Stabilisation and Diversification in Dominica’, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol 27, No 23, July 2008, pp 317-32.
‘Aftershock: Naomi Klein and the Global Financial Crisis’, New Political Economy, Vol 14, No 3, September 2009, pp 423-8.
'The Missed Opportunity: Building a CARICOM Developmental State', Brown Journal of World Affairs, Vol XVI, No 1, Fall/Winter 2009, pp 137-49.
'How many Gs are there in 'global governance' after the crisis? The perspectives of the 'marginal majority' of the world's states', International Affairs, Vol 86, No 3, May 2010, pp 729-40.
'Climate Change and the Future of Caribbean Development', with M L Bishop, Journal of Development Studies, Vol 48, Issue 10, 2012, pp 1536-53.
'Caribbean Development Alternatives and the CARIFORUM-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement', with M L Bishop and T Heron, Journal of International Relations and Development, forthcoming 2013.

Book Chapters

'Introduction: Dependency Theory and the Commonwealth Caribbean' in A J Payne & P K Sutton (eds), Dependency under Challenge: The Political Economy of the Commonwealth Caribbean, Manchester University Press, Manchester and Dover, New Hampshire, 1984, pp 1-11
'Jamaica: the 'Democratic Socialist' Experiment of Michael Manley' in A J Payne & P K Sutton (eds), Dependency under Challenge: The Political Economy of the Commonwealth Caribbean, Manchester University Press, Manchester and Dover, New Hampshire, 1984, pp 18-42
'Regional Industrial Programming in CARICOM' in A J Payne & P K Sutton (eds), Dependency under Challenge: The Political Economy of the Commonwealth Caribbean, Manchester University Press, Manchester and Dover, New Hampshire, 1984, pp 131-51
'Introduction', with C Clarke, in C Clarke and T Payne (eds), Politics, Security and Development in Small States, Allen & Unwin, London, Boston, Sydney and Wellington, 1987, pp vii-xviii
'Economic Issues' in C Clarke and T Payne (eds), Politics, Security and Development in Small States, Allen & Unwin, London, Boston, Sydney and Wellington, 1987, pp 50-62
'Conclusion', with C Clarke, in C Clarke and T Payne (eds), Politics, Security and Development in Small States, Allen & Unwin, London, Boston, Sydney and Wellington, 1987, pp 225-8
'The Political Significance of the Rodney Riots in Jamaica' in R Rausch (ed), Europe and the Crisis in Central America and the Caribbean, Association for European Research on the Caribbean and Central America, Marburg, 1988, pp 184-200
'Jamaica' in V Randall (ed), Political Parties in the Third World, Sage Publications, London and Beverly Hills, 1988, pp 135-54
'El Surgimento y la Decadencia de la Regionalizacion del Caribe' in G Salgado (ed), Economia de la Integracion Latinamericana: Lectura Seleccionadas, Tomo 11, Editorial Tesis, Buenos Aires, 1989, pp 249-81
'Britain and the Caribbean' in P K Sutton (ed), Europe and the Caribbean, Macmillan, London, 1990, pp 13-36
'The Foreign Policy of the People's Revolutionary Government' in J Heine (ed), A Revolution Aborted: The Lessons of Grenada, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1990, pp 123-51
'Introduction: The Hopes and the Fallacies', with J Mayall, in J Mayall and A J Payne (eds), The Fallacies of Hope: The Post-colonial Record of the Commonwealth Third World, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1990, pp 1-16
'Full Bellies in Freedom House: Universal Human Rights, Cultural Relativism and the Commonwealth Third World', in J Mayall and A J Payne (eds), The Fallacies of Hope: The Post-colonial Record of the Commonwealth Third World, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1990, pp 191-211
'Jamaican Society and the Testing of Democracy' in C Clarke (ed), Politics and Society in the Caribbean, Macmillan, London, 1991, pp 31-46.
'The Caribbean' in R H Jackson and A James (eds), States in a Changing World: A Contemporary Analysis, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993, pp 262-282
'The Commonwealth and the Politics of Sporting Contacts with South Africa' in J C Binfield and J Stevenson (eds), Sport, Culture and Politics, Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield 1993, pp 129-150
'Introduction: The Contours of Modern Caribbean Politics', with P K Sutton, in A J Payne and P K Sutton (eds), Modern Caribbean Politics, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1993, pp 1-27
'Liberal Economics v Electoral Politics in Jamaica' in A J Payne and P K Sutton (eds), Modern Caribbean Politics, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1993, pp 28-53
'Westminster Adapted: The Political Order of the Commonwealth Caribbean' in R Pastor et al (eds), Democracy in the Caribbean: Political, Economic and Social Perspectives, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1993, pp 57-73
'The Politics of Small State Security in the Pacific' in P K Sutton and A J Payne (eds), Size and Survival: The Politics of Security in the Small Island and Enclave Developing States of the Caribbean and the Pacific, Frank Cass, London, 1993, pp 103-132
'Towards a Security Policy for Small Island and Enclave Developing States', with P K Sutton, in P K Sutton and A J Payne (eds), Size and Survival: The Politics of Security in the Small Island and Enclave Developing States of the Caribbean and the Pacific, Frank Cass, London, 1993, pp 193-200
'The Politics of Regional Cooperation in the Caribbean: The Case of CARICOM' in W A Axline (ed), The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation, Pinter, London, 1994, pp 72-104
'Introduction: The Political Economy of Regionalism and World Order', with A M Gamble, in A M Gamble and A J Payne (eds), Regionalism and World Order, Macmillan, London, 1996, pp 1-20
'The United States and its Enterprise for the Americas' in A M Gamble and A J Payne (eds), Regionalism and World Order, Macmillan, London, 1996, pp 93-129
'Conclusion: The New Regionalism', with A M Gamble, in A M Gamble and A J Payne (eds), Regionalism and World Order, Macmillan, London, 1996, pp 247-64
'Jamaica' in G Mace and J-P Therien (eds), Beyond NAFTA: Foreign Policy and Regionalism in the Americas, Lynne Rienner, Boulder, 1996, pp 69-86
'Adaptation et Ajustements du Systéme de Westminster: L'Ordre Politique dans la Caraïbe Anglophone' in J. Daniel (ed), Les Iles Caraïbes: Modèles Politiques et Stratégies de Développement, Editions Karthala, Paris, 1996, pp. 47-73
'The Association of Caribbean States' in G Hook and I Kearns (eds), Subregionalism and World Order, Macmillan, London, 1999, pp 117-37
'Globalisation and Modes of Regionalist Governance' in J Pierre (ed), Debating Governance: Authority, Steering and Democracy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000, pp 201-18
'"Introduction: Portrait of a West Indian in the World' in D Dabydeen and J Gilmore (eds), No Island is an Island: Selected Speeches of Sir Shridath Ramphal 1983-1996, Macmillan with the University of Warwick, London, 2000, pp 1-13
'Regionalist Responses in the Caribbean Basin', with J Grugel, in B Hettne, A Inotai and O Sunkel (eds), National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South, Macmillan, London, 2000, pp 198-220
'Microregionalization across 'Caribbean America'', with T Heron, in S Breslin and G Hook (eds), Microregionalism and World Order, Palgrave, London, 2002, pp 42-65
'Rethinking Development inside International Political Economy' in J Busumtwi-Sam and L Dobuzinskis (eds), Turbulence and New Directions in Global Political Economy, Palgrave, London, 2003, pp 33-48
'Governance in the Context of Globalisation and Regionalisation', in Denis Benn and Kenneth Hall (eds.), Governance in the Age of Globalisation, University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, 2003, pp 147-63
'Globalization and Modes of Regionalist Governance', in David Held et al. (eds), The Global Transformations Reader, Polity Press, 2003, pp 213-22
'The World Order Approach', with A M Gamble, in F Soderbaum and T Shaw (eds), Theories of New Regionalism, Palgrave, London, 2003, pp 43-62
'Rethinking Development inside International Political Economy', in A J Payne (ed), The New Regional Politics of Development, Palgrave, London, 2004, pp 1-28
'Concluding Thoughts and Next Steps' in A J Payne (ed), The New Regional Politics of Development, Palgrave, London, 2004, pp 248-57
'The Study of Governance in a Global Political Economy', in N Phillips (ed), Globalizing International Political Economy, Palgrave, London, 2005, pp 55-81
'The Genealogy of New Political Economy', in A J Payne (ed), Key Debates in New Political Economy, Routledge, London, 2006, pp 1-10.
'The Global Politics of Development: Towards a New Research Agenda', in M Cox (ed), Twentieth Century International Relations, Vol VII, Sage, London, 2006, pp 368-83.
'Introduction: Thinking about Global Governance and Japan', with G D Hook, in G D Hook and H Dobson (eds), Global Governance and Japan: The Institutional Architecture, Routledge, London, 2007, pp 1-22.
‘Blair, Brown, and Gleneagles: Making Poverty History or Confronting Unequal Development’, in M Fratianni, J J Kirton and P Savona (eds), Financing Development: The G8 and UN Contribution, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007., pp 79-98.
‘Statesman of the West Indies’, in R Bourne (ed), Sonny Ramphal: The Commonwealth and the World – Essays in Honour of his 80th Birthday, Hansib, London, 2008, pp 95-112.
‘Vulnerability as a Condition, Resilience as a Strategy’, in A F Cooper and T M Shaw (eds), The Diplomacies of Small States: Between Vulnerability and Resilience, Palgrave, London, 2009, pp 279-85.
‘Repositioning the Commonwealth Caribbean’, in A F Cooper and J Heine (eds), Which Way Latin America? Hemispheric Politics Meets Globalization, United Nations University Press, Tokyo, 2009, pp 140-56.

PhD Supervision

He is second supervisor to two students.