Cyrus Bina is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics and Management at the University of Minnesota , Morris. He has been the Lead Faculty, Associate Director of the MBA Program, and Founding Director of the Center of Unified, Global, and Applied Research (COUGAR) at the University of Redlands, California (1996-1998); he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA (2002-2003); a Fellow and Research Associate (1990-1993), and Affiliate-in-Research (1994-1995) at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and Professor of Economics at Olivet College, Michigan (1982-1987). Dr. Bina is the author of The Economics of the Oil Crisis (1985), co-editor of Modern Capitalism and Islamic Ideology in Iran (1992) and Beyond Survival: Wage labor in the Late Twentieth Century (1996), and author of more than 180 published scholarly papers, book chapters, and book reviews, and policy pieces, particularly on the subjects of the globalization of world economy; rise and fall of the Pax Americana ; global oil; US foreign policy; OPEC; global labor movement, technology and skill formation in capitalism; global warming, and energy and environment. Professor Bina is the author of several theories, including differential oil rents, oil crisis, oil piece formation, and competitive globalization of the oil industry. Primarily, these theoretical works are uniquely critical of the foreign policy, energy policy and the environment by the United States . He also has written extensively on the issues surrounding the Middle East conflicts, the political economy of Iran , and political Islam, including the nationalization of oil (1951) and Constitutional Revolution (1906-1911) in Iran . He has given more than 1100 interviews and participated in more than 700 radio and TV programs by the national and international media around the globe on the subjects of his expertise and interests during the last decade or so. Bina has been member of the Board of Directors of Middle East Economic Association (1988-1992), member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Radical Political Economics (1980-1990; 2001-2004), member of URPE's Steering Committee (2003-2007), Associate Editor of the Journal of Iranian research & Analysis since 2000, and member of Editorial Board, Journal of Critical Studies on Business and Society, since January 2008. He is a member of the American Economic Association and Economists for Peace & Security.