Dr. Corey R. Payne
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Profile
Corey R. Payne is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Richmond. His work examines the dynamics of historical capitalism, with a focus on war, social conflict, and global governance.
Payne’s current book project, Making Endless War: Global Capitalism and the Transformation of the US Military-Industrial Complex, explains the seemingly endless character of U.S. wars today through an investigation of the changing social relations of U.S. war-making around the world.
He specializes in comparative and world-historical research methods. He is the co-editor of the book World-Systems Analysis at a Critical Juncture (Routledge, 2022) and the co-PI of the World-Magnates Project. He is a research fellow at the Arrighi Center for Global Studies.
Payne earned a Ph.D. in sociology, an M.A. in sociology (global social change), and a B.A. in international studies from Johns Hopkins University.
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Publications
Books
Corey R. Payne, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, and Beverly J. Silver, eds. (2022). World-Systems Analysis at a Critical Juncture. Routledge.
Journal ArticlesRoberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Corey R. Payne. (2025). “‘Billionaires’ and Capitalist Development in World-Historical Perspective: Introducing the World-Magnates Dataset, 1450-1914,” Sociology of Development. 11(3): 239-265.
Corey R. Payne and Ori Swed. (2024). “Disentangling the US Military’s Climate Change Paradox: An Institutional Perspective.” Sociology Compass. Vol. 18, Issue 1: 1-16.
Corey R. Payne. (2023). “From Mass Mobilization to Neoliberal War-Making: Labor Strikes and Military-Industrial Transformation in the United States.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Vol. 64, Issue 5: 481-508.
Corey R. Payne and Beverly J. Silver. (2022). “Domination Without Hegemony and the Limits of U.S. World Power.” Political Power and Social Theory. Vol. 39: 159-177.
Corey R. Payne. (2020). “War and Workers’ Power in the United States: Labor Struggles in War-Provisioning Industries, 1993-2016.” Journal of Labor and Society. 23(1): 111-130.
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Corey R. Payne. (2019). “Sugar, Slavery, and Creative Destruction: World-Magnates and ‘Coreification’ in the Longue-Durée.” Journal of World-Systems Research. 25(2): 395-419. [Link]
Book ChaptersBeverly J. Silver and Corey R. Payne. (2020). “Crises of World Hegemony and the Speeding Up of Social History,” in Hegemony and World Order: Reimagining Power in Global Politics, Piotr Dutkiewicz, Tom Casier, and Jan Aart Scholte, eds. Routledge.
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Corey R. Payne. (2020). “Rethinking Core and Periphery in Historical Capitalism: World-Magnates and The Shifting Epicenters of Wealth Accumulation,” in Economic Cycles and Social Movements: Past, Present and Future, Eric Mielants & Katsiaryna Salavei Bardos, eds., Routledge.
Daniel S. Pasciuti and Corey R. Payne. (2018). “Illusion in Crisis? World-Economic and Zonal Volatility, 1975-2013,” in The World-System as Unit of Analysis: Past Contributions and Future Advances, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, ed. Routledge.
Additional PublicationsCorey Payne. (2024). “System Change, not return to the same: A comment on Tooze’s ‘Hegemony Notes,’” Marxist Sociology: Theory, Research, Politics. Jul. 21.
Corey Payne. (2023). “How Financial Institutions Like Silicon Valley Bank Fund the Weapons Industry,” Jacobin Magazine. March 23.
Corey Payne. (2022). “Financialization Feeds Endless War,” Convergence Magazine.
Corey R. Payne. (2020). “How do wars affect workers in the United States?” Work In Progress.
Corey Payne. (2016). “The School of Subcontracting.” Jacobin Magazine. Oct. 25.
ReviewsCorey R. Payne. (2021). “Review of Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision by Brendan McQuade.” Journal of World-Systems Research. 27(2):586-589.
Corey R. Payne. (2020). “Review of First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers by Richard Lachmann.” Journal of World-Systems Research. 26(2): 424-427.
Corey R. Payne. (2019). “Review of The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel.” Journal of World-Systems Research. 25(1).
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