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Alex Callinicos studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics before writing a DPhil on Marx's Capital, also at Balliol.

He was a Junior Research Fellow in Contemporary Social Thought at St Peter's College, Oxford, in 1979-81, after which he taught social and political theory at the Department of Politics at the University of York till 2005, when he moved to King's.

• European social and political theory
• Marx
• Contemporary political philosophy and critical theory
• Historiography
• International political economy.

Alex Callinicos has published extensively on Marxism, social theory, political philosophy, political economy, and race and racism. Among his best known books are Althusser's Marxism (1976), The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx (1983), Making History (1987), Against Postmodernism (1990), Social Theory (1999), An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto (2003), and The New Mandarins of American Power (2003). His book, The Resources of Critique (2006), is an assessment of contemporary critical theory - notably the philosophy of Alain Badiou and Toni Negri - from a Marxist perspective. He has also worked in international political economy: his latest book, Imperialism and Global Political Economy was published by Polity in 2009.

Alex Callinicos has been an active contributor to the development of the movement for another globalization, participating in the World Social Forum and an animator of the European Social Forum.