Peter Burnham

Who is Peter Burnham?

Peter Burnham is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. He was previously based at the University of Warwick, where he was Head of Department in the Department of Politics and International Studies from 2004 to 2008 and where he remains an Associate Fellow. His interests lie in the areas of British politics, radical international political economy, state theory, and political science research methods.

Burnham's publications include The Political Economy of Postwar Reconstruction, A Major Crisis? The Politics of Economic Policy in Britain in the 1990s, Remaking the Postwar World Economy: Robot and British Policy in the 1950s, Global Restructuring, State, Capital and Labour: Contesting Neo-Gramscian Perspectives, and Research Methods in Politics.