Dr Phil Williams
Professor Emeritus, Universirty of Pittsburgh A scholar of US-Soviet relations who, after the Cold War ended, focused on transnational organized crime and the threats it poses to human, national, and international security.
About this speaker
Dr Phil Williams is Professor Emeritus, the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught from January 1990 to April 2022. In the first part of his career, at Aberdeen University, Southampton University, and Chatham House, he wrote books on Crisis Management, The Senate and US Troops in Europe, and (with Mike Bowker) Superpower Détente. During the last 30 years his research has focused primarily on transnational organized crime, and he has written on this in Survival, Washington Quarterly, The Bulletin on Narcotics, Scientific American, Crime Law and Social Change, and International Peacekeeping. Williams also wrote and edited several monographs for the Strategies Studies Institute at the US Army War college including Criminals Militias and Insurgents: Organized Crime in Iraq. His most recent work, coedited with Michael Glass and Taylor Seybolt, is Urban Violence, Resilience and Security: Governance Responses in the Global South published by Elgar in January 2022. He also has a forthcoming book (with Colin Clarke and Jason Blazakis) The Mediterranean Connection: Criminal Networks and Illicit Economies in North Africa (to be published by Lynne Reiner in 2024) and is currently preparing a report The Future of Organized Crime for the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
