Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University. He was a Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 2002 to 2014, and served as the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights from 2008 to 2014. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Religion and Humane Global Governance; Human Rights Horizons; On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics; Explorations at the Edge of Time; Revolutionaries and Functionaries; The Promise of World Order; Indefensible Weapons; Human Rights and State Sovereignty; This Endangered Planet; The Great Terror War; and, most recently, Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope (Just World Books, 2014), (Re)imagining Humane Global Governance (Routledge, 2014), Chaos and Counterrevolution: After the Arab Spring (Zed Books, 2015), Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimacy Wars: Seeking Peace and Justice in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2015), and Power Shift: on the New Global Order (Zed Books, 2016). He serves as Senior Vice President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Board of Directors.
The Great Awakening: New Modes of Life amidst Capitalist Ruins
Kill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare