Horace G. Campbell holds a joint professorship in Political Science and African American Studies at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. He is also a Special Invited Professor in The Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Born in Jamaica and trained on four continents, he has been involved in the peace and social justice movements for decades. His most important book Rasta and Resistance From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney is going through its eight edition. He is also the author of Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation: (David Phillip South Africa and Africa World Press, New Jersey ) His most recent book is Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya: Lessons for Africa in the Forging of African Unity, Monthly Review press, 2013. In 2010, he published the book, Barack Obama and Twenty First Century Politics: A Revolutionary Moment in the USA, Pluto Press, London. He has contributed over thirty chapters to other edited books and has published numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals. He is a regular contributor to Counterpunch and Pambazuka News. He was formerly the Chairperson of the Walter Rodney Commemoration Committee and was the Chariperson of the International Caucus of the Black Radical Congress. Horace Campbell works in the wider Syracuse Community as an activist for peace.