Single Authored Books

• Richard Westra, The Evil Axis of Finance: The US-Japan-China Stranglehold on the Global Future (Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2012)
• Richard Westra, Political Economy and Globalization: Frontiers of Political Economy Series (London: Routledge, 2009) Paperback Edition 2011.

Edited Books

• Richard Westra (ed.) Confronting Global Neoliberalism: Third World Resistance and Development Strategies (Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2010).
• Robert Albritton, Bob Jessop and Richard Westra (eds.) Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The 21st Century, Present and Future (London: Anthem, 2010).
• Laura Westra, Klaus Bosselmann and Richard Westra (eds.) Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity (London: Earthscan Ltd., 2008).
• Martin Hart-Landsberg, Seongjin Jeong and Richard Westra (eds.) Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).
• Richard Westra and Alan Zuege (eds.) Value and the World Economy Today: Production, Finance and Globalization (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan 2003).

Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals

• "Periodizing Capitalism and the Political Economy of Post-War Japan", Journal of Contemporary Asia, 26, 4 (October 1996) pp. 431-51.
• "Marxian Economic Theory and an Ontology of Socialism: A Japanese Intervention", Capital & Class, 78 (2002) pp. 61-85.
• "Social Theory, Economic Crisis, and the Japanese Political Economy: A Review Article", Review of International Political Economy, 10, 2 (2003) pp. 363-73.
• "Globalization and the Pathway to Socio-Material Betterment", Review of Radical Political Economics, 36, 3 (2004) pp. 381-90.
• "The Capitalist Stage of Consumerism and South Korean Development", Journal of Contemporary Asia, 36, 1 (February 2006) pp. 3-25.
• "Kautsky, Lukacs, Althusser and the Retreat from the Economic in Marxism - with the Return in Uno", Political Economy Quarterly, 44, 2 (2007) pp. 77-87.
• "Economic Life Beyond Capital", Review of Radical Political Economics, 40, 3 (2008) pp. 354-62.
• "Korea Déjà vu", Journal of Contemporary Asia, 40, 2 (2010) pp. pp. 329-36
• "Renewing Socialist Development in the Third World", Journal of Contemporary Asia, 41, 4 (2011) pp. 519-43.

Book Chapters

• "Periodizing Capitalism and the Political Economy of Post-War Japan", reprinted from Journal of Contemporary Asia in Edward R. Beauchamp (ed.) The Japanese Economy and Economic Issues since 1945. Dimensions of Contemporary Japan: Volume 5 (New York: Garland, 1998).
• Phases of Capitalism and Post-Capitalist Social Change" in Robert Albritton, Makoto Itoh, Richard Westra and Alan Zuege (eds.), Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises and Globalizations (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2001).
• "Phases of Capitalism, Globalizations, and the Japanese Economic Crisis", in James Busumtwi-Sam and Laurent Dobuzinskis (eds.) Turbulence and New Directions in Global Political Economy (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002).
• "Globalization: The Retreat of Capital to the 'Interstices' of the World?", in Richard Westra and Alan Zuege (eds.), Value and the World Economy Today: Production, Finance and Globalization (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003).
• "The 'Impasse' Debate and Socialist Development", in Robert Albritton, Shannon Bell, John Bell and Richard Westra (eds.) New Socialisms: Futures beyond Globalization. Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era (London: Routledge 2004).
• "State, Market, and Stages of Capitalism in South Korean Development" in Martin Hart-Landsberg, Seongjin Jeong and Richard Westra (eds.) Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy (London: Ashgate, 2007).
• "Socio-material Communication, Community, and Eco-sustainability in the Global Era" in Carl A. Maida, (ed.) Sustainability and Communities of Place. In the Series on Environmental Anthropology, Roy Ellen, Editor. (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2007).
• "Market society and ecological integrity: theory and practice", in Sustaining Life on Earth: Environmental and Human Health Through Global Governance, in Colin Soskolne (Chief Editor), Laura Westra, Brendan Mackey, William Rees, Louis Kotze and Richard Westra (eds.) (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007).
• "Green Marxism and the Institutional Structure of a Global Socialist Future" in Robert Albritton, Robert Jessop and Richard Westra (eds.) Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The 21st Century Present and Future (London: Anthem, 2007).
• "Socio-Material Communication in Eco-Sustainable Societies of the Future" in Laura Westra, Klaus Bosselmann and Richard Westra (eds.) Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity, (London: Earthscan Ltd., 2008).
• "Development Theory and Neoliberal Globalization" in Richard Westra (ed.) Confronting Global Neoliberalism: Third World Resistance and Development Strategies (Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2010).

Current post, 2011 to present

Associate Professor, Division of International and Area Studies, Pukyong National University, Pusan, South Korea, 2009 - 2010

Assistant Professor, Division of International and Area Studies, Pukyong National University, Pusan, South Korea, 2004 to 2008

Full-time Lecturer, Division of International and Area Studies, Pukyong National University, Pusan, South Korea, 2002 to 2004

Lecturer, School of Social Science, College of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas, 2000 to 2001

Visiting Research Fellow, Focus on the Global South/Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2008 to 2009

Teaching Fellow at the International Study Center, Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, UK, 1998 to 1999