William I. Robinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the acclaimed author of numerous award-winning books, including Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (Cambridge, 2014), and is a frequent speaker on a wide range of current topics, among them global politics and economics, capitalist crises, and resistance movements. His theory of global capitalism has been hailed as a theoretical milestone in understanding the dynamics of the contemporary global order.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: towards a theory of global capitalist exhaustion; 1. Structural crisis: overaccumulation; 2. Crisis of social reproduction; 3. Legitimacy crisis, geopolitical conflict, and global police state; 4. Collapse of the biosphere; 5. Into the vortex; Select bibliography.

William I. Robinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the acclaimed author of numerous award-winning books, including Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (Cambridge, 2014), and is a frequent speaker on a wide range of current topics, among them global politics and economics, capitalist crises, and resistance movements. His theory of global capitalism has been hailed as a theoretical milestone in understanding the dynamics of the contemporary global order.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: towards a theory of global capitalist exhaustion; 1. Structural crisis: overaccumulation; 2. Crisis of social reproduction; 3. Legitimacy crisis, geopolitical conflict, and global police state; 4. Collapse of the biosphere; 5. Into the vortex; Select bibliography.