Inderjeet Parmar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 149730 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Inderjeet Parmar |
| NOMBRES | Inderjeet |
| APELLIDO | Parmar |
| FIRMA | PARMAR I |
| AFILIACIONES | City, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8688-9020 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 169 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Trump’s Fragile Counter-hegemony
This article provides a comprehensive neo-Gramscian analysis of Donald Trump’s political project—“Trumpism”—as it concludes its first year of its second term in power in December 2025. It integrates Antonio Gramsci’s key concepts of hegemony, historic bloc, passive revolution, and the morbid symptoms of interregnum with Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman’s propaganda model outlined in Manufacturing Consent. Central to the analysis is Bastiaan van …
Liberal crisis machine
This paper shows that the Hewlett Foundation, contra its legal status, its non-political self-concept and conventional scholarly claims to third-sector or technocratic neutrality, acts as a liberal ‘crisis machine’ to manage and moderate radical change, and to strengthen existing power distributions. This occurs through programmes that protect the US elite constitutional processes, promote post-neoliberalism, and address China’s geo-economic chal…
The Ford Foundation and the development of international relations in China
Current explanations of Sino–American relations are dominated by realist and liberal understandings of world politics, neglecting crucial transnational actors that complexify Sino–American relations. In contrast and drawing from internationally informed Gramscian hegemony theory, and on extensive archival work, we offer an alternative complex multidimensional transnational account. By researching the Ford Foundation’s activities in China and the …
Towards critical multiplexity in International Relations
Multiplexity is a promising concept in International Relations (IR) to describe the emerging world order. For Amitav Acharya, a multiplex world is a world of complex interconnectedness and interdependence, with cross-cutting international orders and globalisms led by non-western actors. In a multiplex world, the West will have ‘to negotiate accommodation’ with these global South voices and influence ‘to salvage aspects of the liberal order’. This…
The architecture of consent
India’s transition from a statist, inward-oriented economy to one integrated with global markets is often explained by macroeconomic crisis and the failure of ‘license raj’. We argue that while crisis was the trigger, the form and resilience of India’s liberalisation were shaped by a decades-long project of elite knowledge network formation and preparation. Foregrounding the role of the Ford Foundation, we conceptualise its influence as building …
Mobilizing Knowledge for Power
Indirect rule
The myth of American idealism
Indian wars everywhere
The Rise and Fall of a Wilsonian Dream
This book represents an archive based, original, and in-depth study or biography of the Williamstown Institute of Politics (IOP) and its inspiration Harry Garfield, son of the assassinated U.S. President James A. Garfield. Harry Garfield’s principal claim to historical recognition is described and to some extent explained in this interesting study. Garfield established an interwar-years center for the study and discussion of international affairs…
A humane analysis of a violent liberal international order
Trump’s Coup and Insurrection and Biden’s challenge and opportunity
President Donald Trump’s attempted coup and insurrection’s political effects are set to continue in the future because the enabling conditions have deep historical roots, its support reaches far into the U.S. state, broad sections of the Republican Party and electorate, military, and law enforcement. It will have national and global implications. There is a feeling that the imperial homeland is on the brink of a descent into the abyss. Although t…
The Trump administration, the far-right and world politics
We contend that the Trump administration mainstreamed far-right politics through its foreign policy on China, the World Health Organization and its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our Gramscian-Kautskyian theoretical perspective concentrates on elite power, class, and interconnections between advanced global capitalism and domestic inequality. We show that the administration amplified US far-right Sinophobia even as it deepened connections bet…
Global Violence and Europe's Long Peace Intimately Connected
“The ferocious violence of the Cold War’s killing fields was every bit as central to the making of the contemporary world as Europe’s long peace” (p.562; italics mine). That final, concluding sentence of the book sums up its key take-away point. Perhaps less so among global historians than liberal IR scholars, this conclusion needs to be driven home because liberal IR accounts simply ignore the experiences of peoples beyond Euro-America. The inti…
Destroying Yemen
China’s rise in a liberal world order in transition – introduction to the Forum
In a time of great uncertainty about the future and resilience of the liberal world order this Forum focuses on China’s rise and interplay with the foundations of that liberal order. The key question is the extent to and variegated ways in which China - with its (re)ascendance to power and potential global leadership – is adapting to and perhaps even strengthening liberal institutions and rules of the game, confronting them, or developing alterna…
A new type of great power relationship’? Gramsci, Kautsky and the role of the Ford Foundation’s transformational elite knowledge networks in China
Challenging conflictual Realist and optimistic liberal-internationalist arguments about full-scale integration of China into the US-led order, this article uses Gramsci’s concept of hegemony and Kautsky’s concept of ultra-imperialism to explore US hegemony’s influence in transforming China and to characterize the relationship. Original archival research shows that China’s elites were gradually integrated into the US-led order from 1978, with a sp…
Global Power Shifts, Diversity, and Hierarchy in International Politics
Liberal internationalism is under the microscope as never before as it faces a world experiencing turbulence and anxiety. The specter of right-wing authoritarianism and even fascism haunt Western societies as struggles for recognition dominate domestic politics, while demands of (re)emerging states for international representation grow more compelling. Simultaneously, there is broader recognition of a growing legitimacy crisis of the American heg…
Transnational Elite Knowledge Networks
The liberal international order’s own theory is as much in crisis as the institutional system whose virtues it champions. This is due first to theoretical shortcomings per se, and due second to its misunderstanding or neglect of the role of elite knowledge networks and of socialization in the development and perpetuation of American liberal hegemony. This article, which adds to recent interest in the dynamics of hegemonic-order building and maint…
The Rise and Decline of the American Century
William O. Walker III argues that the “American Century,” as conceived by Henry Luce in a 1941 Life article, was embedded in liberal elites' mind-sets, represented an improbable quest, did not last beyond the end of the Vietnam War and the Richard M. Nixon–Henry Kissinger era of “strategic globalism,” and lies dormant in the age of Donald J. Trump. Walker believes, nevertheless, that the effort to build a liberal international order in which the …
Domestic influences on foreign policy making
This chapter examines domestic factors that influence American foreign policy, focusing on the variety of ways in which pressure groups and elites determine and shape what the United States does in the international arena. It first considers how US foreign policy has evolved over time before discussing the US Constitution in terms of foreign policy making and implementation. It then explores institutional influences on foreign policy making, incl…
The birth of global knowledge
Introduction
The Trump presidency appears to personify, along with Britain's vote to withdraw from the European Union, a sense of deep crisis in the United States-led liberal international order (LIO). The two states that conceived and constructed a whole array of international institutions after 1945 now seem to be rejecting that order, or at the very least, demanding that its institutions either be reformed or recalibrated to better suit their purposes. How…
The US-led liberal order
This article argues that the biggest challenges facing the post-1945 liberal international order are to genuinely embrace ethno-racial diversity and strategies to reduce class-based inequalities. However, this is problematic because the LIO’s core foundational principles, and principal underpinning “theory” (liberal internationalism), are Eurocentric, elitist, and resistant to change. Those core principles are subliminally racialized, elitist, an…
The Legitimacy Crisis of the U.S. Elite and the Rise of Donald Trump
The American political elite’s legitimacy crisis is demonstrated by Trump’s rise by challenging Wall Street, both main parties’ leadership, and limited government. His challenge overlapped with Leftist Bernie Sanders’s who also focused on deep inequalities in the US. The crisis is rooted in the neoliberal political-economic model adopted in the 1970s to shore up American elite power but which generated major crises at home and challenges abroad. …
American foundations and the development of international knowledge networks
This article examines the role and influence of three American foundations - Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford - in developing international knowledge networks that significantly impacted upon the Third World, helping to consolidate US hegemony after 1945, fostering pro-US values, methods and research institutions. The international networks were modelled on prior domestic initiatives resulting in the effective intellectual hegemony of 'liberal int…
China’s rise in a liberal world order in transition – introduction to the Forum
In a time of great uncertainty about the future and resilience of the liberal world order this Forum focuses on China’s rise and interplay with the foundations of that liberal order. The key question is the extent to and variegated ways in which China - with its (re)ascendance to power and potential global leadership – is adapting to and perhaps even strengthening liberal institutions and rules of the game, confronting them, or developing alterna…
Foreign policy fusion
Catalysing Events, Think Tanks and American Foreign Policy Shifts
The American aggression in Iraq and the campaign in Afghanistan resulted from the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US. 9/11 has had a massive, catalysing effect on the American public, press, main political parties and official foreign policy makers. This article assesses the impact of 9/11 in changing US foreign policy and especially in creating a new foreign policy establishment by comparing it to the consequences of an historical military atta…
To Relate Knowledge and Action
The US-led liberal order
This article argues that the biggest challenges facing the post-1945 liberal international order are to genuinely embrace ethno-racial diversity and strategies to reduce class-based inequalities. However, this is problematic because the LIO’s core foundational principles, and principal underpinning “theory” (liberal internationalism), are Eurocentric, elitist, and resistant to change. Those core principles are subliminally racialized, elitist, an…
A new type of great power relationship’? Gramsci, Kautsky and the role of the Ford Foundation’s transformational elite knowledge networks in China
Challenging conflictual Realist and optimistic liberal-internationalist arguments about full-scale integration of China into the US-led order, this article uses Gramsci’s concept of hegemony and Kautsky’s concept of ultra-imperialism to explore US hegemony’s influence in transforming China and to characterize the relationship. Original archival research shows that China’s elites were gradually integrated into the US-led order from 1978, with a sp…
Foundation Networks and American Hegemony
The major American foundations constructed and sustained the rich texture of cooperative social, intellectual and political relations between key actors and institutions supportive of specific modes of thought that promoted US hegemony. Foundations also fostered and developed the attractive power-knowledge networks that not only radiated intellectual influence but also attracted some of the most creative minds. Finally, liberal internationalist f…
I'm Proud of the British Empire
This article considers the three main reasons behind Tony Blair's support for the post-9/11 foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration, especially the war on Iraq: first, Blair is on a neo-imperial mission, with deep roots in his personal development, to re-order the world to better suit British interests; secondly, Bush and Blair independently agree that the post-1989 period represents wasted time, years of drift that could have been us…
Global Power Shifts, Diversity, and Hierarchy in International Politics
Liberal internationalism is under the microscope as never before as it faces a world experiencing turbulence and anxiety. The specter of right-wing authoritarianism and even fascism haunt Western societies as struggles for recognition dominate domestic politics, while demands of (re)emerging states for international representation grow more compelling. Simultaneously, there is broader recognition of a growing legitimacy crisis of the American heg…
Racial and imperial thinking in international theory and politics
Connects the background ideas of race and empire to world politics Uses case of Truman and Attlee in the Korean War Argues that liberal-realist internationalists’ assumptions about the US-led post-war order obscure those background ideas and fail to understand the character of the post-war order Argues liberal-realist internationalism is akin to a legitimating ideology rather than an explanatory theory Argues that such failings render liberal int…
The Carnegie Corporation and the Mobilisation of Opinion in the United States' Rise to Globalism, 1939–1945
Transnational Elite Knowledge Networks
The liberal international order’s own theory is as much in crisis as the institutional system whose virtues it champions. This is due first to theoretical shortcomings per se, and due second to its misunderstanding or neglect of the role of elite knowledge networks and of socialization in the development and perpetuation of American liberal hegemony. This article, which adds to recent interest in the dynamics of hegemonic-order building and maint…
The ‘knowledge politics’ of democratic peace theory
The Trump administration, the far-right and world politics
We contend that the Trump administration mainstreamed far-right politics through its foreign policy on China, the World Health Organization and its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our Gramscian-Kautskyian theoretical perspective concentrates on elite power, class, and interconnections between advanced global capitalism and domestic inequality. We show that the administration amplified US far-right Sinophobia even as it deepened connections bet…
Clash of pans
Mobilizing America for An Internationalist Foreign Policy”
This article attempts to examine the processes by which the United States was transformed from an “isolationist” power to an “internationalist” one in the World War II period, focusing on the role of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an influential and controversial foreign policy organization.It is clear, however, that the internationalist-isolationist dichotomy is too simplistic; it has been demonstrated, notably by corporatist historians…
Indirect rule
Elites and American power in an era of anti-elitism
The "Big 3" Foundations and American Global Power
This article shows how the major foundations were extremely influential in America's rise to global hegemony over the past century. The leadership of these foundations was part of the eastern foreign policy establishment that initially mobilized support for a globalist, anti-isolationist agenda and after World War II worked to construct a viable intellectual framework promoting American perspectives in world affairs. The development of foundation…
American Philanthropy and the Hard, Smart and Soft Power of the United States
Smart power—the combination of hard and soft power—remains an oft-invoked catchphrase within the Unites States' foreign policy establishment. Originally conceived as a form of revitalised liberal i
Anglo-American Elites in the Interwar Years
Some of the most important thinking on international politics in the interwar period was not done by academics, but `think tanks' like Chatham House in London and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, whose members were often drawn from the ranks of the policy-making community. When the intellectual roots of the leaders of the two bodies are examined, it is clear that they where far from being the detached observers with no understanding …
Resurgent Academic Interest in the Council on Foreign Relations
This article is based around a review of five books on the Council on Foreign Relations, an elite American foreign affairs think-tank, written during the 1990s. It aims to consider some of the reasons for this upsurge in academic interest in the CFR, the character of the books themselves, and how they approach and analyse the organisation. In so doing, the article takes a critical stance to the literature and suggests what a more adequate theoret…
Introduction
The Trump presidency appears to personify, along with Britain's vote to withdraw from the European Union, a sense of deep crisis in the United States-led liberal international order (LIO). The two states that conceived and constructed a whole array of international institutions after 1945 now seem to be rejecting that order, or at the very least, demanding that its institutions either be reformed or recalibrated to better suit their purposes. How…
A Foundation-Hatched Black’
Chatham house and the Anglo‐American alliance
(1992). Chatham house and the Anglo‐American alliance. Diplomacy & Statecraft: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 23-47
The Issue of State Power
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has long been recognised as one of the most influential of modern American institutions. Indeed, for some scholars at least, the relationship between the Council and the federal government has been a troubling one. A private group that is exclusive and unrepresentative in membership, funded by large corporations and foundations, highly secretive about its operations, and ensconced in the centres of state pow…
Mobilizing America for An Internationalist Foreign Policy”
This article attempts to examine the processes by which the United States was transformed from an “isolationist” power to an “internationalist” one in the World War II period, focusing on the role of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an influential and controversial foreign policy organization.It is clear, however, that the internationalist-isolationist dichotomy is too simplistic; it has been demonstrated, notably by corporatist historians…
Imperial Britain
Imperial languages, identities and beliefs mobilizing imperialists propagating imperialism imperial trade - tariff reform imperial security - naval supremacy and defence planning populating the empire - overseas migration World War I and its imperial aftermath
The Carnegie Corporation and the Mobilisation of Opinion in the United States' Rise to Globalism, 1939–1945
Resurgent Academic Interest in the Council on Foreign Relations
This article is based around a review of five books on the Council on Foreign Relations, an elite American foreign affairs think-tank, written during the 1990s. It aims to consider some of the reasons for this upsurge in academic interest in the CFR, the character of the books themselves, and how they approach and analyse the organisation. In so doing, the article takes a critical stance to the literature and suggests what a more adequate theoret…
To Relate Knowledge and Action
Anglo-American Elites in the Interwar Years
Some of the most important thinking on international politics in the interwar period was not done by academics, but `think tanks' like Chatham House in London and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, whose members were often drawn from the ranks of the policy-making community. When the intellectual roots of the leaders of the two bodies are examined, it is clear that they where far from being the detached observers with no understanding …
American foundations and the development of international knowledge networks
This article examines the role and influence of three American foundations - Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford - in developing international knowledge networks that significantly impacted upon the Third World, helping to consolidate US hegemony after 1945, fostering pro-US values, methods and research institutions. The international networks were modelled on prior domestic initiatives resulting in the effective intellectual hegemony of 'liberal int…
Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy
What is the role of elites in shaping foreign policy? Did unaccountable foreign policy elites shape the post-1945 world order? Chatham House and the Council on Foreign Relations were vital in America'
Another important group that needs more cultivation
This article explores the role and influence of the elite US east coast organization, the Council on Foreign Relations [CFR], on the mobilization of Black Americans for aiding the Allied war effort in 1939–41. It examines the Council's wide-ranging campaign, arguing that the CFR, through two ad hoc organizations, the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies and Fight For Freedom, mobilized blacks despite their political and economic margi…
I'm Proud of the British Empire
This article considers the three main reasons behind Tony Blair's support for the post-9/11 foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration, especially the war on Iraq: first, Blair is on a neo-imperial mission, with deep roots in his personal development, to re-order the world to better suit British interests; secondly, Bush and Blair independently agree that the post-1989 period represents wasted time, years of drift that could have been us…
Catalysing Events, Think Tanks and American Foreign Policy Shifts
The American aggression in Iraq and the campaign in Afghanistan resulted from the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US. 9/11 has had a massive, catalysing effect on the American public, press, main political parties and official foreign policy makers. This article assesses the impact of 9/11 in changing US foreign policy and especially in creating a new foreign policy establishment by comparing it to the consequences of an historical military atta…
New Directions in US Foreign Policy
Foreign policy fusion
Soft Power and US Foreign Policy
Soft power is the use of attraction and persuasion rather than the use of coercion or force in foreign policy. This volume features writing by Joseph Nye, outlining his views on soft, hard and smart power and offers a critique of the Bush administration's inadequacies.
American power and identities in the age of Obama
Foundations of the American Century
Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's only superpower, all in the name of benevolent stewardship. Parmar begins…
Foundation Networks and American Hegemony
The major American foundations constructed and sustained the rich texture of cooperative social, intellectual and political relations between key actors and institutions supportive of specific modes of thought that promoted US hegemony. Foundations also fostered and developed the attractive power-knowledge networks that not only radiated intellectual influence but also attracted some of the most creative minds. Finally, liberal internationalist f…
Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America
The 2008 presidential election was celebrated around the world as a seminal moment in U.S. political and racial history. White liberals and other progressives framed the election through the prism of change, while previously acknowledged demographic changes were hastily heralded as the dawn of a post-racial America. However, by 2011, much of the post-election idealism had dissipated in the wake of an on-going economic and financial crisis, escala…
The ‘knowledge politics’ of democratic peace theory
American Power and Philanthropic Warfare
This article examines paradoxical and counter-intuitive linkages between the rise of American power, increasingly influential philanthropic foundations, and war, providing concrete evidence of “how power works”. In particular, the article shows the close inter-relations and complementarity between “soft” and “hard” power, between elite private foundations and the American state. Considering philanthropic foundations and war together shows the com…
American Philanthropy and the Hard, Smart and Soft Power of the United States
Smart power—the combination of hard and soft power—remains an oft-invoked catchphrase within the Unites States' foreign policy establishment. Originally conceived as a form of revitalised liberal i
Foundations of the American Century
This book reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. It focuses on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, and traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's only superpower, all in the name of benevolent stewardship. The book begins in the…
The "Big 3" Foundations and American Global Power
This article shows how the major foundations were extremely influential in America's rise to global hegemony over the past century. The leadership of these foundations was part of the eastern foreign policy establishment that initially mobilized support for a globalist, anti-isolationist agenda and after World War II worked to construct a viable intellectual framework promoting American perspectives in world affairs. The development of foundation…
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