Georgi Derluguian
Biographic Data
| ID | 258744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georgi Derluguian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georgi |
| FAMILY NAME | Derluguian |
| SIGNATURE | DERLUGUIAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0175-7617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ein kleiner Weltkrieg: Die ethnische Säuberung Bergkarabachs. The Ethnic Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh
Azerbaijan has expelled the Armenian population from Karabakh. Turkey supported Baku, and Moscow gave a free hand to the little brother of its “rival partner” Ankara. The Armenian catastrophe seems to be just another unpleasant episode in a faraway region, but it is proving to be a piece in the mosaic of world events
The Bronze Age as the First World-System: Theses for aResearch Agenda
Bronze Age is traditionally viewed as historical period in the third and second millennia BCE. My key contention is that it is more meaningfully considered in geographic terms, as interconnected space of trade and cultural exchanges encompassing Afro-Eurasia but not Tropical Africa, let alone Australia and the Americas. The Bronze-age world-system extended from Scandinavia and British Isles to Egypt and Mesopotamia, from the Indus valley civiliza…
Forging a Unitary State: Russia’s Management of the Eurasian Space, 1650–1850, by John LeDonne
A Small World War
At the intersection of Eurasia’s pre-modern empires, Transcaucasia has long been a battlezone. With the waning of American-led globalization, and its legacy of militarization, are their avatars—Russia, Turkey, Iran—re-emerging, equipped with Israeli drones? Georgi Derluguian locates the 2020 war for Nagorno Karabagh in the geopolitical longue durée
Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown
This book situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, this is a potential historical turning point. The book establishes w…
Braudel, Fernand (1902–1985)
The most influential and decorated “mega‐historian” of the twentieth century brought his vast erudition and elegance to the study of past worlds beyond the confines of academic disciplines and national narratives. His nuanced macro/micro‐perspective, originally Durkheimian, became an alternative to Marxist, Weberian, and neoclassical views of capitalism. In turn, it inspired the world‐systems analysis of Immanuel Wallerstein and Giovanni Arrighi.…
Undoing the Revolution: Comparing Elite Subversion of Peasant Rebellions
Social inequality in the evolution of human societies
The author develops ideas about the origin of social inequality during the evolution of human societies and reflects on the possibilities of its overcoming. What makes human beings different from other primates is a high level of egalitarianism and altruism, which contributed to more successful adaptability of human collectives at early stages of the development of society. The transition to agriculture, coupled with substantially increasing popu…
The War Within: New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992
A fresh analysis of the post-colonial war in Mozambique that contributes to debates about conflict, peacebuilding, development and nationalism and offers insights into the nature of contemporary politics and the current conflict. The 1976-1992 civil war which opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among other actors) is a central event in the history of Mozambique. Aiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book…
Postmodernity's Unexpected Arrival: 1968 As Breakdown in Geoculture
The year 1968 marked the apogee of High Modernity as expressed in the Old Left programs of either social-democratic reform or communist revolution. The New Left critics, in both east and west, demanded more of the same: a more "humane" socialism or less bureaucratic capitalism. Their demands, however, exceeded the limits of redistribution under each political system. Both western and eastern European power elites eventually found escape from stat…
Does Capitalism Have a Future? That Is the Research Question. In Response to Bruce Scott
Author(s): Derluguian, Georgi | Abstract: Forum on 'Does Capitalism Have a Future? That Is the Research Question In Response to Bruce Scott
Spaces, Trajectories, Maps: Towards a World-Systems Biography of Immanuel Wallerstein
World-systems analysis, although itself a macrohistorical perspective, eminently allows for writing individual biographies because these are structurally conditioned and historically contingent trajectories developing in specific time and space. The biographical genre seems particularly useful in intellectual popularization and in exploring how macro-level concepts behave in observed empirical situations. This article offers and demonstrates spec…
Armenia’s Fuel Protests
Political life in post-Soviet Armenia has been forged on the anvil of militarized national defence against its larger neighbour, Azerbaijan. Can a new generation of activists succeed in bringing social questions to the fore? Examination of recent struggles against transport and electricity price rises
Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present
The Social Origins of Good and Bad Governance: Re-interpreting the 1968 Schism in Frelimo
This chapter examines the case of the construction of the Mozambican nation by FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front. In this respect, FRELIMO had to solve two problems. Firstly, the movement was confronted with the practical necessity of legitimizing the unity and identity of a territory against the hegemonic claims of the colonial empire. Secondly, FRELIMO needed to distinguish itself from other political factions, which had already elaborat…
Strong chieftaincies out of weak states, or elemental power unbound
Chieftaincies constructed of personal power networks emerge recurrently within states and their business corporations, political parties, mafias, insurgencies and artistic cliques. Modern states were built by incorporating chieftaincies as internal organs. Nevertheless, ‘neopatrimonialism’, ‘political machines’, ‘oligarchy’, caudillismo and warlordism – the various names that designate different facets of chieftaincy – represent neither aberrant …
Sketch for a Self-Analysis
The Worlds which the Portuguese, the Russians and the Turks Created: Empires on Europe’s Periphery
The revealing analogies among the Portuguese, Russian, and Turko-Ottoman empires add analytical depth to our understanding of the evolution of modern world-system. The empires emerged simultaneously with capitalism and equally relied on the new power techniques of gunpower, bureaucracy, state control over trade, and official religion. Starting from the geopolitical margins of Anatolia, the Pyrenees, or Russian forests, the new empires soon achiev…
The Lone Wolf and the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule by Moshe Gammer
Journal Article The Lone Wolf and the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule by Moshe Gammer Get access The Lone Wolf and the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Ruleby Moshe Gammer. Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 255pp. $27.95. Georgi M. Derluguian Georgi M. Derluguian Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quart…
Machiavellis for Postmoderns
Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography
Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus is a gripping account of the developmental dynamics involved in the collapse of Soviet socialism. Fusing a narrative of human agency to his critical discussion of structural forces, Georgi M. Derluguian reconstructs from first-hand accounts the life story of Musa Shanib - who from a small town in the Caucasus grew to be a prominent leader in the Chechen revolution. In his examination of Shanib and his kee…
Alternative Pasts, Future Alternatives
Georgi Derluguian writes that Cohen's exposition of the alternatives facing Gorbachev as reformer misses key elements that would give his analysis a firm disciplinary foundation: the social mechanisms involved in formulating and spreading competing discourses, the structural coalescence of potentially contentious groups and their actual mobilizing, the institutionalization of political gains, elite and oppositional brokerage, geopolitical configu…
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
The recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. longtime critic of the Russian government, particularly with regard to its policies in Chechnya, Politkovskaya was a special correspondent for the liberal Moscow newspaper Novaya gazeta. Beginning in 1999, Politkovskaya authored numerous articles about the war in Chechnya, and she was the…
Under Fond Western Eyes
Questioning Geopolitics: Political Projects in a Changing World-System
Repetition, Variation, and Transmutation as Scenarios for the 21st Century by Georgi M. Derluguian and Walter Goldfrank Restructuring World Power Globalizing Capital and Political Agency in the 21st Century by Stephen Gill Stateness and System in the Global Structure of Trade: A Network Approach to Assessing Nation Status by Michael Alan Sacks, Marc Ventrisca, and Brian Uzzi Predictions of Geopolitical Theory and the Modern World-System by Randal…
The politics of identity in a Russian borderland province: The Kuban neo‐Cossack movement, 1989–1996
(1997). The politics of identity in a Russian borderland province: The Kuban neo‐Cossack movement, 1989–1996. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1485-1500
Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present
Rouge et Noire: Contradictions of the Soviet Collapse
Unlike the bloody beginning of the Soviet Union, its end has been amazingly peaceful. Mikhail Gorbachev has been eulogized for accomplishing this “velvet” revolution from above. From the standpoint of the peoples of Transcaucasia, Moldavia and much of Central Asia, however, things look rather different. There events have been no more “velvet” than in Albania and Yugoslavia. There is a temptation to see all this as a historical reversal. Cities an…
Spaces, Trajectories, Maps: Towards a World-Systems Biography of Immanuel Wallerstein
World-systems analysis, although itself a macrohistorical perspective, eminently allows for writing individual biographies because these are structurally conditioned and historically contingent trajectories developing in specific time and space. The biographical genre seems particularly useful in intellectual popularization and in exploring how macro-level concepts behave in observed empirical situations. This article offers and demonstrates spec…
Sketch for a Self-Analysis
Alternative Pasts, Future Alternatives
Georgi Derluguian writes that Cohen's exposition of the alternatives facing Gorbachev as reformer misses key elements that would give his analysis a firm disciplinary foundation: the social mechanisms involved in formulating and spreading competing discourses, the structural coalescence of potentially contentious groups and their actual mobilizing, the institutionalization of political gains, elite and oppositional brokerage, geopolitical configu…
Che Guevaras in Turbans
On 7 August 1999, caravans of well-armed and bearded men, wearing camouflage fatigues and Islamic skullcaps or headbands, crossed from Chechnya into the mountains of Daghestan. They were led by the two most famous field commanders of the recent Chechen war of independence—Shamil Basayev and Khattab. Basayev had
Ethnic” Violence in the Post-Communist Periphery
This article focuses on two apparently very different manifestations of this phenomena in the relatively recent history of the peripheries of the former communist zone of the modem world system: armed banditry in Mozambique, and inter-ethnic violence in the Southern republics of the former Soviet Union. It offers an interpretation of such violence, and its significance, which is not based on a cultural or anthropological reading. Rather, it argue…
Rouge et Noire: Contradictions of the Soviet Collapse
Unlike the bloody beginning of the Soviet Union, its end has been amazingly peaceful. Mikhail Gorbachev has been eulogized for accomplishing this “velvet” revolution from above. From the standpoint of the peoples of Transcaucasia, Moldavia and much of Central Asia, however, things look rather different. There events have been no more “velvet” than in Albania and Yugoslavia. There is a temptation to see all this as a historical reversal. Cities an…
The Other Mediterranean
Since the Neolithic agriculturalist revolution, the shores of the Black Sea have been continuously inhabited by linguistically and culturally diverse peoples. In some places ethno-historical continuities are truly staggering, as in the inaccessible valleys of the Caucasus, sheltered from invasions, where natives can make credible—as well as totally
The politics of identity in a Russian borderland province: The Kuban neo‐Cossack movement, 1989–1996
(1997). The politics of identity in a Russian borderland province: The Kuban neo‐Cossack movement, 1989–1996. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1485-1500
Che Guevaras in Turbans
On 7 August 1999, caravans of well-armed and bearded men, wearing camouflage fatigues and Islamic skullcaps or headbands, crossed from Chechnya into the mountains of Daghestan. They were led by the two most famous field commanders of the recent Chechen war of independence—Shamil Basayev and Khattab. Basayev had
A Tale of Two Cities
Adventures in pursuit of house and home across three continents—from service with national liberation in Mozambique to the labyrinths of bureaucratic Moscow and the tribulations of DIY Chicago. An Armenian’s sly homage to upside-down internationalism
Sociology for the Twenty-First Century: Continuities and Cutting Edges
These essays probe issues of central importance to North American societies in the 21st century. The chapters in part one revise theory and methods to comprehend the economic and political institutions that increasingly dominate the lives of individuals and groups, arguing that these giants must be made more democratically accountable. Part two explores the social effects that growing globalization, transnationalization, and information technolog…
Recasting Russia
What do the West’s belated plaudits for Putin’s gage to the war against terrorism—the Caucasus as proving-ground for the Hindu Kush—signify for Russia’s future in the world-system? Georgi Derluguian looks at the longue durée, from the Golden Horde to the IMF
Questioning Geopolitics: Political Projects in a Changing World-System
Repetition, Variation, and Transmutation as Scenarios for the 21st Century by Georgi M. Derluguian and Walter Goldfrank Restructuring World Power Globalizing Capital and Political Agency in the 21st Century by Stephen Gill Stateness and System in the Global Structure of Trade: A Network Approach to Assessing Nation Status by Michael Alan Sacks, Marc Ventrisca, and Brian Uzzi Predictions of Geopolitical Theory and the Modern World-System by Randal…
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
The recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. longtime critic of the Russian government, particularly with regard to its policies in Chechnya, Politkovskaya was a special correspondent for the liberal Moscow newspaper Novaya gazeta. Beginning in 1999, Politkovskaya authored numerous articles about the war in Chechnya, and she was the…
Under Fond Western Eyes
Alternative Pasts, Future Alternatives
Georgi Derluguian writes that Cohen's exposition of the alternatives facing Gorbachev as reformer misses key elements that would give his analysis a firm disciplinary foundation: the social mechanisms involved in formulating and spreading competing discourses, the structural coalescence of potentially contentious groups and their actual mobilizing, the institutionalization of political gains, elite and oppositional brokerage, geopolitical configu…
Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography
Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus is a gripping account of the developmental dynamics involved in the collapse of Soviet socialism. Fusing a narrative of human agency to his critical discussion of structural forces, Georgi M. Derluguian reconstructs from first-hand accounts the life story of Musa Shanib - who from a small town in the Caucasus grew to be a prominent leader in the Chechen revolution. In his examination of Shanib and his kee…
The Lone Wolf and the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule by Moshe Gammer
Journal Article The Lone Wolf and the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule by Moshe Gammer Get access The Lone Wolf and the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Ruleby Moshe Gammer. Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 255pp. $27.95. Georgi M. Derluguian Georgi M. Derluguian Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quart…
Machiavellis for Postmoderns
The Worlds which the Portuguese, the Russians and the Turks Created: Empires on Europe’s Periphery
The revealing analogies among the Portuguese, Russian, and Turko-Ottoman empires add analytical depth to our understanding of the evolution of modern world-system. The empires emerged simultaneously with capitalism and equally relied on the new power techniques of gunpower, bureaucracy, state control over trade, and official religion. Starting from the geopolitical margins of Anatolia, the Pyrenees, or Russian forests, the new empires soon achiev…
Sketch for a Self-Analysis
Strong chieftaincies out of weak states, or elemental power unbound
Chieftaincies constructed of personal power networks emerge recurrently within states and their business corporations, political parties, mafias, insurgencies and artistic cliques. Modern states were built by incorporating chieftaincies as internal organs. Nevertheless, ‘neopatrimonialism’, ‘political machines’, ‘oligarchy’, caudillismo and warlordism – the various names that designate different facets of chieftaincy – represent neither aberrant …
The Social Origins of Good and Bad Governance: Re-interpreting the 1968 Schism in Frelimo
This chapter examines the case of the construction of the Mozambican nation by FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front. In this respect, FRELIMO had to solve two problems. Firstly, the movement was confronted with the practical necessity of legitimizing the unity and identity of a territory against the hegemonic claims of the colonial empire. Secondly, FRELIMO needed to distinguish itself from other political factions, which had already elaborat…
Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present
Spaces, Trajectories, Maps: Towards a World-Systems Biography of Immanuel Wallerstein
World-systems analysis, although itself a macrohistorical perspective, eminently allows for writing individual biographies because these are structurally conditioned and historically contingent trajectories developing in specific time and space. The biographical genre seems particularly useful in intellectual popularization and in exploring how macro-level concepts behave in observed empirical situations. This article offers and demonstrates spec…
Armenia’s Fuel Protests
Political life in post-Soviet Armenia has been forged on the anvil of militarized national defence against its larger neighbour, Azerbaijan. Can a new generation of activists succeed in bringing social questions to the fore? Examination of recent struggles against transport and electricity price rises
Does Capitalism Have a Future? That Is the Research Question. In Response to Bruce Scott
Author(s): Derluguian, Georgi | Abstract: Forum on 'Does Capitalism Have a Future? That Is the Research Question In Response to Bruce Scott
The War Within: New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992
A fresh analysis of the post-colonial war in Mozambique that contributes to debates about conflict, peacebuilding, development and nationalism and offers insights into the nature of contemporary politics and the current conflict. The 1976-1992 civil war which opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among other actors) is a central event in the history of Mozambique. Aiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book…
Postmodernity's Unexpected Arrival: 1968 As Breakdown in Geoculture
The year 1968 marked the apogee of High Modernity as expressed in the Old Left programs of either social-democratic reform or communist revolution. The New Left critics, in both east and west, demanded more of the same: a more "humane" socialism or less bureaucratic capitalism. Their demands, however, exceeded the limits of redistribution under each political system. Both western and eastern European power elites eventually found escape from stat…
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