Thomas Furse
Biographic Data
| ID | 1458522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Furse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Furse |
| SIGNATURE | FURSE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | City, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1698-7201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Democracy in Karl Kautsky’s theory of ultra-imperialism
In the early twentieth century, Karl Kautsky argued that explanations for world disorder stemmed from what bourgeois politics avoided - harmonizing class relations and making states more democratic. He characterized the capitalist bourgeois approach to politics and the world order as a form of exploitation through international cartels and monopolies. He theorized an ultra-imperialist world order where the great powers would work together to deep…
Political theory and the CIA in the US imperium
It is almost a clichéd conspiracy theory to think that the CIA is an all-powerful beast operating beyond the hills of political accountability. In their new books, Luca Trenta and Hugh Wilford unra
Fighting Smart
This article analyzes the relationship between living systems theory (LST) and the army's military doctrine in the 1980s. General Donn Starry, Colonel Mike Malone, and Major James Cary worked with James G. Miller, the founder of LST, to make the army more efficient at fighting a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. LST conceptualized that living organisms organized matter and energy and that its components could function because they worked as a pa…
Changing the guard
The US Army employed organizational and behavioral sciences in the context of the emerging Postindustrial political economy to shape its new strategic thought in the 1980s. This article examines how a group of military intellectuals in the Army applied ideas from these sciences to promote officer decision-making and decentralization while maintaining the Army's culture and ethics. They had significant reservations about bringing new ideas from th…
Let us go out to the Field’
Christian nationalists attempt to save the United States from eternal damnation by forcefully confronting threats at home and abroad. This paper investigates how a selection of Christian nationalists in the US foreign policy-making ecosystem use the apocalypse to achieve their political aims. The ‘strategic social construction’ model demonstrates how and why the apocalyptic narrative is helpful to rally political action to halt the decline of the…
The political economy of US maritime strategy in the Indo-Pacific
Political economy impacts and influences a state's military strategy. This article focuses on how the integration of the US political economy in the Indo-Pacific drives US Navy officers and the broader national security state to establish the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP). Investigating the strategic thought of senior Naval officers shows that they think far beyond military threats and engage with the United States and the Indo-Pacific politi…
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…
Forward to the 1980s
The World from the Veld
South Africa, although not outside the Anglosphere, does not lie neatly within it either. Indeed, Alfred Milner described it as “the weakest link in the Imperial chain” (p. 9). Thakur and Vale (2020) nevertheless focus on South Africa as a key place in the evolution of ideas that informed debates about British imperialism and international relations (IR). Their work claims an alternative, but complementary, origin story for IR—one rooted in the b…
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…
The political economy of US maritime strategy in the Indo-Pacific
Political economy impacts and influences a state's military strategy. This article focuses on how the integration of the US political economy in the Indo-Pacific drives US Navy officers and the broader national security state to establish the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP). Investigating the strategic thought of senior Naval officers shows that they think far beyond military threats and engage with the United States and the Indo-Pacific politi…
Forward to the 1980s
The World from the Veld
South Africa, although not outside the Anglosphere, does not lie neatly within it either. Indeed, Alfred Milner described it as “the weakest link in the Imperial chain” (p. 9). Thakur and Vale (2020) nevertheless focus on South Africa as a key place in the evolution of ideas that informed debates about British imperialism and international relations (IR). Their work claims an alternative, but complementary, origin story for IR—one rooted in the b…
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…
Forward to the 1980s
Let us go out to the Field’
Christian nationalists attempt to save the United States from eternal damnation by forcefully confronting threats at home and abroad. This paper investigates how a selection of Christian nationalists in the US foreign policy-making ecosystem use the apocalypse to achieve their political aims. The ‘strategic social construction’ model demonstrates how and why the apocalyptic narrative is helpful to rally political action to halt the decline of the…
The political economy of US maritime strategy in the Indo-Pacific
Political economy impacts and influences a state's military strategy. This article focuses on how the integration of the US political economy in the Indo-Pacific drives US Navy officers and the broader national security state to establish the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP). Investigating the strategic thought of senior Naval officers shows that they think far beyond military threats and engage with the United States and the Indo-Pacific politi…
Political theory and the CIA in the US imperium
It is almost a clichéd conspiracy theory to think that the CIA is an all-powerful beast operating beyond the hills of political accountability. In their new books, Luca Trenta and Hugh Wilford unra
Fighting Smart
This article analyzes the relationship between living systems theory (LST) and the army's military doctrine in the 1980s. General Donn Starry, Colonel Mike Malone, and Major James Cary worked with James G. Miller, the founder of LST, to make the army more efficient at fighting a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. LST conceptualized that living organisms organized matter and energy and that its components could function because they worked as a pa…
Changing the guard
The US Army employed organizational and behavioral sciences in the context of the emerging Postindustrial political economy to shape its new strategic thought in the 1980s. This article examines how a group of military intellectuals in the Army applied ideas from these sciences to promote officer decision-making and decentralization while maintaining the Army's culture and ethics. They had significant reservations about bringing new ideas from th…
Democracy in Karl Kautsky’s theory of ultra-imperialism
In the early twentieth century, Karl Kautsky argued that explanations for world disorder stemmed from what bourgeois politics avoided - harmonizing class relations and making states more democratic. He characterized the capitalist bourgeois approach to politics and the world order as a form of exploitation through international cartels and monopolies. He theorized an ultra-imperialist world order where the great powers would work together to deep…
Politics (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Foreign policy (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Administration (probate law (2 works)