Jamie Allinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 282811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Allinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Allinson |
| SIGNATURE | ALLINSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8664-9334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Response to Shamiran Mako and Valentine M. Moghadam’s Review of The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East
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The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East
The 'Arab Spring' has come to symbolise defeated hopes for democracy and social justice in the Middle East. In this book, Jamie Allinson demonstrates how these defeats were far from inevitable. Rather than conceptualising the 'Arab Spring' as a series of failed revolutions, Allinson argues it is better understood as a series of successful counter-revolutions. By comparing the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen, this book…
On Generations of Revolutionary Theory: A Response
Few things in academic life are as satisfying as encountering an engaged critique of one’s work. In that spirit, I was delighted to read the rigorous and thoughtful replies to my review essay ‘A Fifth Generation of Revolutionary Theory?’ by Ben Abrams (2019) and, responding to both of us, Colin Beck and Ritter (2021). Their critiques have prompted me both to rethink what I have got wrong–as well as clarify and defend what I still think I have rig…
Counter-revolution as international phenomenon: The case of Egypt
This article argues that the case of the Egyptian 2011 revolution forces us to rethink accounts of counter-revolution in International Relations. The debate over whether the events of 2011–13 in Egypt should be considered a ‘revolution’ or merely a ‘revolt’ or ‘uprising’ reflects an understanding of revolutions as closed and discrete events, and therefore of international counter-revolution as significant only after revolutionary movements have s…
A fifth generation of revolution theory
The study of revolution in historical sociology is conventionally divided into four 'generations' of scholarship, with the fourth associated with an agency-focused approach that departed from an immanent critique of the structuralism they saw in the third. However, the resurgence of revolution in the early 21st century led to the criticism that even the fourth generation had failed sufficiently to overcome its structuralist limitations. This essa…
The Struggle for the State in Jordan: The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East
Why do the states of the Arab world seem so unstable? Why do alliances between them and with outside powers change? Jamie Allinson argues that the answer lies in the expansion of global capitalism in the Middle East. Drawing out the unexpected way in which Jordan's Bedouin tribes became allied to the British Empire in the twentieth century, and the legacy of this for the international politics of the Middle East, he challenges the existing views …
Class forces, transition and the Arab uprisings: A comparison of Tunisia, Egypt and Syria
This article intervenes into an ongoing debate on authoritarian regimes in the Arab world following the uprisings of 2011, in particular addressing the perceived failure of those uprisings to bring about "transition" to liberal democratic models. Drawing upon the method of comparative historical sociology used in seminal analyses of democratization and dictatorship in Europe, Asia and the Americas, the article seeks to explain the varying traject…
The Necropolitics of Drones
The rapid increase in the use and capabilities of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or “drones,” has led to debates on their place in US strategy, particularly their use in assassination missions, or so-called targeted killings. However, this debate has tended to focus narrowly on two questions: first, whether the US use of UAVs to assassinate its enemies, including US citizens, is legal, and second, whether drones should be given the autonomy to …
The uneven and combined development of the Meiji Restoration: A passive revolutionary road to capitalist modernity
In this article, we examine the utility of Antonio Gramsci's concept of passive revolution and its relation to Leon Trotsky's theory of uneven and combined development in analysing the transformational effects of world economy and international relations on 'late-developing' societies' transition to capitalism. Although Gramsci never explicitly linked passive revolution to uneven and combined development, we argue that Trotsky's theory helps make…
The uses and misuses of uneven and combined development: An anatomy of a concept
A central concern of much contemporary Marxist scholarship in international relations (IR) is to internally relate global capitalism and the state system without reducing one of these systems to an epiphenomenon of the other. A recent attempt at this is Justin Rosenberg's reformulation of Leon Trotsky's idea of uneven and combined development (U&CD). This article examines the internal relations of 'unevenness' and 'combination' as presented by Tr…
The uses and misuses of uneven and combined development: An anatomy of a concept
A central concern of much contemporary Marxist scholarship in international relations (IR) is to internally relate global capitalism and the state system without reducing one of these systems to an epiphenomenon of the other. A recent attempt at this is Justin Rosenberg's reformulation of Leon Trotsky's idea of uneven and combined development (U&CD). This article examines the internal relations of 'unevenness' and 'combination' as presented by Tr…
The uneven and combined development of the Meiji Restoration: A passive revolutionary road to capitalist modernity
In this article, we examine the utility of Antonio Gramsci's concept of passive revolution and its relation to Leon Trotsky's theory of uneven and combined development in analysing the transformational effects of world economy and international relations on 'late-developing' societies' transition to capitalism. Although Gramsci never explicitly linked passive revolution to uneven and combined development, we argue that Trotsky's theory helps make…
The Necropolitics of Drones
The rapid increase in the use and capabilities of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or “drones,” has led to debates on their place in US strategy, particularly their use in assassination missions, or so-called targeted killings. However, this debate has tended to focus narrowly on two questions: first, whether the US use of UAVs to assassinate its enemies, including US citizens, is legal, and second, whether drones should be given the autonomy to …
Class forces, transition and the Arab uprisings: A comparison of Tunisia, Egypt and Syria
This article intervenes into an ongoing debate on authoritarian regimes in the Arab world following the uprisings of 2011, in particular addressing the perceived failure of those uprisings to bring about "transition" to liberal democratic models. Drawing upon the method of comparative historical sociology used in seminal analyses of democratization and dictatorship in Europe, Asia and the Americas, the article seeks to explain the varying traject…
A fifth generation of revolution theory
The study of revolution in historical sociology is conventionally divided into four 'generations' of scholarship, with the fourth associated with an agency-focused approach that departed from an immanent critique of the structuralism they saw in the third. However, the resurgence of revolution in the early 21st century led to the criticism that even the fourth generation had failed sufficiently to overcome its structuralist limitations. This essa…
Counter-revolution as international phenomenon: The case of Egypt
This article argues that the case of the Egyptian 2011 revolution forces us to rethink accounts of counter-revolution in International Relations. The debate over whether the events of 2011–13 in Egypt should be considered a ‘revolution’ or merely a ‘revolt’ or ‘uprising’ reflects an understanding of revolutions as closed and discrete events, and therefore of international counter-revolution as significant only after revolutionary movements have s…
On Generations of Revolutionary Theory: A Response
Few things in academic life are as satisfying as encountering an engaged critique of one’s work. In that spirit, I was delighted to read the rigorous and thoughtful replies to my review essay ‘A Fifth Generation of Revolutionary Theory?’ by Ben Abrams (2019) and, responding to both of us, Colin Beck and Ritter (2021). Their critiques have prompted me both to rethink what I have got wrong–as well as clarify and defend what I still think I have rig…
The uses and misuses of uneven and combined development: An anatomy of a concept
A central concern of much contemporary Marxist scholarship in international relations (IR) is to internally relate global capitalism and the state system without reducing one of these systems to an epiphenomenon of the other. A recent attempt at this is Justin Rosenberg's reformulation of Leon Trotsky's idea of uneven and combined development (U&CD). This article examines the internal relations of 'unevenness' and 'combination' as presented by Tr…
The uneven and combined development of the Meiji Restoration: A passive revolutionary road to capitalist modernity
In this article, we examine the utility of Antonio Gramsci's concept of passive revolution and its relation to Leon Trotsky's theory of uneven and combined development in analysing the transformational effects of world economy and international relations on 'late-developing' societies' transition to capitalism. Although Gramsci never explicitly linked passive revolution to uneven and combined development, we argue that Trotsky's theory helps make…
Class forces, transition and the Arab uprisings: A comparison of Tunisia, Egypt and Syria
This article intervenes into an ongoing debate on authoritarian regimes in the Arab world following the uprisings of 2011, in particular addressing the perceived failure of those uprisings to bring about "transition" to liberal democratic models. Drawing upon the method of comparative historical sociology used in seminal analyses of democratization and dictatorship in Europe, Asia and the Americas, the article seeks to explain the varying traject…
The Necropolitics of Drones
The rapid increase in the use and capabilities of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or “drones,” has led to debates on their place in US strategy, particularly their use in assassination missions, or so-called targeted killings. However, this debate has tended to focus narrowly on two questions: first, whether the US use of UAVs to assassinate its enemies, including US citizens, is legal, and second, whether drones should be given the autonomy to …
The Struggle for the State in Jordan: The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East
Why do the states of the Arab world seem so unstable? Why do alliances between them and with outside powers change? Jamie Allinson argues that the answer lies in the expansion of global capitalism in the Middle East. Drawing out the unexpected way in which Jordan's Bedouin tribes became allied to the British Empire in the twentieth century, and the legacy of this for the international politics of the Middle East, he challenges the existing views …
Counter-revolution as international phenomenon: The case of Egypt
This article argues that the case of the Egyptian 2011 revolution forces us to rethink accounts of counter-revolution in International Relations. The debate over whether the events of 2011–13 in Egypt should be considered a ‘revolution’ or merely a ‘revolt’ or ‘uprising’ reflects an understanding of revolutions as closed and discrete events, and therefore of international counter-revolution as significant only after revolutionary movements have s…
A fifth generation of revolution theory
The study of revolution in historical sociology is conventionally divided into four 'generations' of scholarship, with the fourth associated with an agency-focused approach that departed from an immanent critique of the structuralism they saw in the third. However, the resurgence of revolution in the early 21st century led to the criticism that even the fourth generation had failed sufficiently to overcome its structuralist limitations. This essa…
On Generations of Revolutionary Theory: A Response
Few things in academic life are as satisfying as encountering an engaged critique of one’s work. In that spirit, I was delighted to read the rigorous and thoughtful replies to my review essay ‘A Fifth Generation of Revolutionary Theory?’ by Ben Abrams (2019) and, responding to both of us, Colin Beck and Ritter (2021). Their critiques have prompted me both to rethink what I have got wrong–as well as clarify and defend what I still think I have rig…
The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East
The 'Arab Spring' has come to symbolise defeated hopes for democracy and social justice in the Middle East. In this book, Jamie Allinson demonstrates how these defeats were far from inevitable. Rather than conceptualising the 'Arab Spring' as a series of failed revolutions, Allinson argues it is better understood as a series of successful counter-revolutions. By comparing the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen, this book…
Response to Shamiran Mako and Valentine M. Moghadam’s Review of The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
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