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Professor Robinson obtained his B.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1982), his M.A. from the University of Warwick (1986), and Ph.D. from Yale University (1993), all in economics.

He is the author (with Daron Acemoglu) of Economic Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Why Nations Fail: The Origins and Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Crown, 2012), and The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Penguin, 2019). He is also the co-editor of several books, including among others Africa’s Development in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Natural Experiments in History (Harvard University Press).

The Queen’s Annual Politics Lecture represent Politics and International Relations as an established and distinguished discipline at Queen’s University Belfast. The lecture showcases cutting edge research by world-leading scholars and practitioners whose expertise is widely disseminated and prominent in public discourses worldwide. In doing so it highlights their ground-breaking research and global engagement for the benefit of Queen’s students and staff, the wider Northern Ireland community and a global audience.

The Queen’s Annual Politics Lecture series is generously supported by the R M Jones Memorial Lecture Fund.

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