Max Spoor

Biography

Max Spoor is Full Professor of Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and Senior Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI). His research is on transition economies such as Vietnam, China, and Central and Eastern Europe, in particular regarding rural and environmental issues, poverty, and inequality, and has also worked on these issues in some countries of Latin America (such as Nicaragua). Recently he started a research project in Cuba on agrarian transition. He has published around 40 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and 60 book chapters. His latest (edited) books are Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict (2004), The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies; Land, Peasants and Rural Poverty in Transition (2009), Water, Security and Sustainable Rural Development, Conflict and Cooperation in Central Eurasia (with Murat Arsel), and Dragons with Clay Feet? Transition, Sustainable Land Use and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam (with Nico Heerink and Qu Futian).

Research Interest

Environmental Sustainability in Developing and Transition Economies, Inclusive Growth, Social Exclusion, Rural Poverty and Inequality