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This book introduces Uneven and Combined Development as an approach
in international studies and showcases some of the latest and most
innovative research in this field. The theory of Uneven and
Combined Development originated in the writings of Leon Trotsky.
However, in recent years it has become the subject of flourishing
literature in the discipline of International Relations, due to its
unique ability to reintegrate social and international theory. The
first and second generations of this literature were focused upon
retrieving the idea, expanding it into a social theory of ‘the
international’, and applying it to numerous empirical cases –
such as the rise of political Islam, the causes of the First World
War and the Bolshevik Revolution, and even the origins of
capitalism as a world system. In the present volume, a third
generation has arrived which further extends the reach of UCD,
connecting it in new and exciting ways to such subjects as ecology,
macro-economic policy, culture, Science and Technology Studies,
Comparative Literature and even science-fiction. The chapters in
this book were originally published in the journal, the Cambridge
Review of International Affairs.
This volume takes up the idea of ‘multiplicity’ as a new common
ground for international theory, bringing together 10 scholars to
reflect on the implications of societal multiplicity for areas as
diverse as nationalism, ecology, architecture, monetary systems,
cosmology and the history of political ideas. International
relations (IR), it is often said, has contributed no big ideas to
the interdisciplinary conversation of the social sciences and
humanities. Yet this is an unnecessary silence, for IR uniquely
addresses a fundamental fact about the human world: its division
into a multiplicity of interacting social formations. This feature
is full of consequences for the very nature of societies and for
social phenomena of all kinds. And in recent years a research
programme has emerged within IR to theorise these ‘consequences
of multiplicity’ and to trace how the effects of the
international dimension extend into other fields of social life.
This book is a powerful indication of the contribution that IR may
yet make to the human disciplines. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.
This book introduces Uneven and Combined Development as an approach
in international studies and showcases some of the latest and most
innovative research in this field. The theory of Uneven and
Combined Development originated in the writings of Leon Trotsky.
However, in recent years it has become the subject of flourishing
literature in the discipline of International Relations, due to its
unique ability to reintegrate social and international theory. The
first and second generations of this literature were focused upon
retrieving the idea, expanding it into a social theory of 'the
international', and applying it to numerous empirical cases - such
as the rise of political Islam, the causes of the First World War
and the Bolshevik Revolution, and even the origins of capitalism as
a world system. In the present volume, a third generation has
arrived which further extends the reach of UCD, connecting it in
new and exciting ways to such subjects as ecology, macro-economic
policy, culture, Science and Technology Studies, Comparative
Literature and even science-fiction. The chapters in this book were
originally published in the journal, the Cambridge Review of
International Affairs.
This volume takes up the idea of 'multiplicity' as a new common
ground for international theory, bringing together 10 scholars to
reflect on the implications of societal multiplicity for areas as
diverse as nationalism, ecology, architecture, monetary systems,
cosmology and the history of political ideas. International
relations (IR), it is often said, has contributed no big ideas to
the interdisciplinary conversation of the social sciences and
humanities. Yet this is an unnecessary silence, for IR uniquely
addresses a fundamental fact about the human world: its division
into a multiplicity of interacting social formations. This feature
is full of consequences for the very nature of societies and for
social phenomena of all kinds. And in recent years a research
programme has emerged within IR to theorise these 'consequences of
multiplicity' and to trace how the effects of the international
dimension extend into other fields of social life. This book is a
powerful indication of the contribution that IR may yet make to the
human disciplines. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of Globalizations.
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Justine Rosenberg
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Justine Rosenberg
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The Follies of Globalisation Theory is an erudite and lively
critique arguing that current fashionable preoccupations, such as
the concern with spatiality, have generated deep intellectual
confusions that stand in the way of a clear understanding of the
modern world. It shows how and why these confusions ultimately
condemn the globalization theorists themselves to a peculiar and
quixotic stance: the more clearly they attempt to articulate their
arguments, the more equivocal and evasive those arguments become,
yielding at best the intellectual equivalent of an architectural
folly.
This Book Is In German. Due to the very old age and scarcity of
this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the
blurring of the original text.
This Book Is In German. Due to the very old age and scarcity of
this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the
blurring of the original text.
The Empire of Civil Society mounts a compelling critique of the
orthodox "realist" theory of international relations and provides a
historical-materialist approach to the international system.
Opening with an interrogation of a number of classic realist works,
the book rejects outright the goal of theorizing geopolitical
systems in isolation from wider social structures. In a series of
case studies-including Classical Greece, Renaissance Italy and the
Portuguese and Spanish empires-Justin Rosenberg shows how the
historical-materialist analysis of societies is a surer guide to
understanding geopolitical systems than the technical theories of
realist international relations. In each case, he draws attention
to the correspondence between the form of the geopolitical system
and the character of the societies composing it. In the final
section of the book, the tools forged in these explorations are
employed to analyze the contemporary international system, with
striking results. Rosenberg demonstrates that the distinctive
properties of the sovereign-states system are best understood as
corresponding to the social structures of capitalist society. In
this light, realism emerges as incapable of explaining what it has
always insisted is the central feature of the international
system-namely, the balance of power. On the other hand, it is
argued that Marx's social theory of value, conventionally regarded
as an account of hierarchical class domination, provides the
deepest understanding of the core international relations theme of
"anarchy." Provocative and unconventional, The Empire of Civil
Society brilliantly turns orthodox international relations on its
head.
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