Dr. Jeb Sprague is a Research Associate at the Institute for Research on World-Systems (IROWS) at the University of California, Riverside. He formerly taught at the University of Virginia and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a founding member of the Network for Critical Studies of Global Capitalism (NCSGC). He is the author of "Globalizing the Caribbean: Political economy, social change, and the transnational capitalist class" (Temple University Press, 2019) and "Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti" (Monthly Review Press, 2012), and is the editor of "Globalization and transnational capitalism in Asia and Oceania" (Routledge, 2016). Visit him at: http://jebsprague.blogspot.com