Robbie Shilliam is a scholar of postcolonial politics and racial politics in the field of International Relations. He is co-editor of the Manchester University Press book series, Postcolonial International Studies. Robbie  is a long-standing active member of the Global Development section of the International Studies Association,  and has served as the association's Vice President.

Currently, Robbie is working on two strands of inquiry:  firstly, a collective project to rethink the discipline of Political Science and to retrieve and build alternative approaches to the discipline that more adequately explain racial politics;  secondly, a critical consideration of the "free thinkers" of Black faith-based movements and their contributions to what we in academia call "political economy". A book - Move Outta Babylon: Rastafari Reason and Political Economy- will be published with Penguin Books. 

Robbie also works with community and academic intellectuals and elders of the Rastafari movement to examine its impact on global affairs. This work includes exhibitions as well as community-engaged research and teaching.  

Monographs

• (with Daniel Renwick) Squalor (London: Agenda Publishing, 2023) 176.pp
• Decolonizing Politics (London:  Polity Press, 2021) 192 pp.
• Race and the Undeserving Poor: From Abolition to Brexit (London: Agenda Publishing, 2018) 192pp.
• The Black Pacific: Anticolonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015) 249pp.
• German Thought and International Relations: The Rise and Fall of a Liberal Project (London: Palgrave, 2009) 251pp.

Edited Volumes

• (Co-edited with Lisa Tilley), Raced Markets (London: Routledge, 2021) 114pp.
• (Co-edited with Olivia Rutazibwa), The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics (London: Routledge, 2018) 460pp.
• (Co-edited with Quynh Pham), Meanings of Bandung: Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visons (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016) 240pp.
• (Co-edited with Alex Anievas and Nivi Manchanda): Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line (London: Routledge, 2014) 218pp.
• International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity (London: Routledge, 2010) 268pp.
• Co-edited (with Gurminder Bhambra): Silencing Human Rights: Critical Approaches to a Contested Project (London: Palgrave, 2008)