Alexander Anievas
Biographic Data
| ID | 346526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Anievas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Anievas |
| SIGNATURE | ANIEVAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5882-8124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The difference multiplicity makes: The American Civil War as passive revolution
This article examines and further develops the relationship between the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD), recently taken up by International Relations (IR) scholars to furnish a social theory of ‘the international’, and the Gramscian concept of ‘passive revolution’, which refers to a molecular process of top-down revolution and state formation that preserves ruling-class power by transforming its social base. To this end, the paper…
The far-right in world politics/world politics in the far-right
This paper provides an introduction to the special issue: ‘The Far-Right in World Politics’. In setting out the special issue, the paper does four things. First, we provide a definition of what we mean by the ‘far-right’ and identify its core characteristics over the longue durée and across different spatial locales. Secondly, we provide a brief discussion and critique of existing approaches to the study of the far-right and offer an alternative …
Reassessing the Cold War and the Far-Right: Fascist Legacies and the Making of the Liberal International Order after 1945
This article intervenes in IR debates on the origins and character of the postwar liberal international order. Dominant theorizations of the US-led Western order rest on a shared assumption of its essentially post-fascist character based on the liberal-democratic properties of its constitutive members. This article challenges this prevailing view. It does so through a critical historical and theoretical exploration of the role of far-right ideopo…
Lineages of Capital
Our reply focuses on three key themes raised in the symposium. First, we discuss an enduring issue in Marxist International Relations: ‘the problematic of the international’ and the problems of methodological internalism. We examine how our interlocutors have responded to this problematic and why we consider these responses insufficient. Specifically, we suggest that the source of our disagreement is grounded in two divergent understandings of th…
Limits of the Universal: The Promises and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Theory and Its Critique
This article seeks to reassess the potential merits and weaknesses of the Subaltern Studies project through the prism of Vivek Chibber’s much-publicised and controversial book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital . By critically examining Chibber’s work, the article aims to better pinpoint exactly what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ with the Subaltern Studies project, while drawing out some productive points of engagement between Marxism and po…
How Did the West Usurp the Rest? Origins of the Great Divergence over theLongue Durée
Traditional explanations of the 'rise of the West' have located the sources of Western supremacy in structural or long-term developmental factors internal to Europe. By contrast, revisionist accounts have emphasized the conjunctural and contingent aspects of Europe's ascendancy, while highlighting intersocietal conditions that shaped this trajectory to global dominance. While sharing the revisionist focus on the non-Western sources of European de…
History, theory, and contingency in the study of modern international relations: The global transformation revisited
Debates engaging the problems of ahistoricism and Eurocentrism in International Relations (IR) theory have taken on new dimensions in recent years. Scholars from a variety of different theoretical traditions have aimed to reconstruct IR theory on stronger historical–sociological grounds, while re-orienting the study of IR away from the fetish of ‘Western’ thought and agency. Buzan and Lawson’s The Global Transformation offers a welcome contributi…
Confronting Eurocentrism, reductionism, and reification in International Historical Sociology: A reply
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to dominant wisdom, capitalism’s origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role. Through an outline of the uneven hi…
Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told. The book offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to the dominant wisdom, ca…
Revolutions and international relations: Rediscovering the classical bourgeois revolutions
In the modern era, revolutions have been central to the structure and dynamics of international affairs. They have always been international events: international in origin, ideology, process and effect, supercharging the rhythms and logics of any given international system. Yet, within the discipline of International Relations, the study of revolutions has remained something of a secondary subject. Not only have there been relatively few studies…
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told. How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to the do…
Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting The Global Colour Line
Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years' Crisis, 1914-1945
The history of the modern social sciences can be seen as a series of attempts to confront the challenges of social disorder and revolution wrought by the international expansion of capitalist social relations. Alexander Anievas focuses on one particularly significant aspect of this story: the intersocietal or geosocial origins of the two world wars, and, more broadly, the confluence of factors behind the Thirty Years' Crisis between 1914 and 1945…
The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology
1. The Longue Duree of the Far-Right: An Introduction - Richard Saull, Alexander Anievas, Neil Davidson and Adam Fabry, 2. The Origins and Persistence of the Far-Right: Capital, Class and the Pathologies of Liberal Politics - Richard Saull, 3. Mass Hysteria or a Class Act? Premonitions of Fascism between Marxism and Liberalism - Ishay Landa, 4. Hegemonic Transition, War and Opportunities for Fascist Militarism - Sefika Kumral, 5. Reaction and Ada…
Reassessing the Nazi War Economy and the Origins of the Second World War
Adam Tooze’s The Wages of Destruction has received a fair amount of scholarly attention since its publication in 2006, particularly among historians. What has received much less attention, however, are the many theoretical insights to be gleaned from Tooze’s history of the inner-workings of the Nazi war economy in the lead-up to the Second World War. This is particularly true of the numerous theoretical subjects and themes covered by Tooze of dir…
International relations between war and revolution: Wilsonian diplomacy and the making of the Treaty of Versailles
What’s at Stake in the Transition Debate? Rethinking the Origins of Capitalism and the ‘Rise of the West’
This article draws on the theory of uneven and combined development (U&CD) to construct a non-Eurocentric and ‘internationalist’ analysis of the transition to capitalism. In doing so, we seek to respond to and rethink two challenges: exposures of Eurocentric notions of the ‘Rise of the West’ on the one hand; and recent critiques of Eurocentric assumptions in the theory of U&CD on the other. Beginning with an assessment of Robert Brenner’s Anglo-c…
In World Historical Perspective: The ‘uneven’ and ‘combined’ origins of World War I
The causes of World War I remain a topic of enormous intellectual interest. Yet, despite the immensity of the literature, historiographical and IR debates remain mired within unhelpful methodological dichotomies revolving around whether a ‘primacy of foreign policy’ versus ‘primacy of domestic politics’ or systemic versus unit-level approach best account for the war’s origins. Given that this historiography is the most prolific body of literature…
Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism
This book brings together internationally-distinguished scholars from History, Philosophy, Development Studies, Geography, and International Relations (IR) to examine recent developments in Marxist approaches to world politics. Offering original and stimulating analyses of subjects traditionally at the forefront of Marxist studies of world politics, the collection also considers issues which have yet to be fully explored within a number of discip…
Marxism and World Politics
This book brings together internationally-distinguished scholars from History, Philosophy, Development Studies, Geography, and International Relations (IR) to examine recent developments in Marxist approaches to world politics. Offering original and stimulating analyses of subjects traditionally at the forefront of Marxist studies of world politics, the collection also considers issues which have yet to be fully explored within a number of discip…
The international political economy of appeasement: The social sources of British foreign policy during the 1930s
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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…
What’s at Stake in the Transition Debate? Rethinking the Origins of Capitalism and the ‘Rise of the West’
This article draws on the theory of uneven and combined development (U&CD) to construct a non-Eurocentric and ‘internationalist’ analysis of the transition to capitalism. In doing so, we seek to respond to and rethink two challenges: exposures of Eurocentric notions of the ‘Rise of the West’ on the one hand; and recent critiques of Eurocentric assumptions in the theory of U&CD on the other. Beginning with an assessment of Robert Brenner’s Anglo-c…
The far-right in world politics/world politics in the far-right
This paper provides an introduction to the special issue: ‘The Far-Right in World Politics’. In setting out the special issue, the paper does four things. First, we provide a definition of what we mean by the ‘far-right’ and identify its core characteristics over the longue durée and across different spatial locales. Secondly, we provide a brief discussion and critique of existing approaches to the study of the far-right and offer an alternative …
Revolutions and international relations: Rediscovering the classical bourgeois revolutions
In the modern era, revolutions have been central to the structure and dynamics of international affairs. They have always been international events: international in origin, ideology, process and effect, supercharging the rhythms and logics of any given international system. Yet, within the discipline of International Relations, the study of revolutions has remained something of a secondary subject. Not only have there been relatively few studies…
Reassessing the Cold War and the Far-Right: Fascist Legacies and the Making of the Liberal International Order after 1945
This article intervenes in IR debates on the origins and character of the postwar liberal international order. Dominant theorizations of the US-led Western order rest on a shared assumption of its essentially post-fascist character based on the liberal-democratic properties of its constitutive members. This article challenges this prevailing view. It does so through a critical historical and theoretical exploration of the role of far-right ideopo…
Limits of the Universal: The Promises and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Theory and Its Critique
This article seeks to reassess the potential merits and weaknesses of the Subaltern Studies project through the prism of Vivek Chibber’s much-publicised and controversial book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital . By critically examining Chibber’s work, the article aims to better pinpoint exactly what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ with the Subaltern Studies project, while drawing out some productive points of engagement between Marxism and po…
Debating uneven and combined development: Towards a Marxist theory of ‘the international’
The following is the second of a two-part section series. The first section, ‘Global capitalism and the states system’, brought together a diverse group of scholars to examine a number of issues ra
Theory of the Global State: Globality as an Unfinished Revolution A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and the State in a Transnational World
190 Review Articles / Historical Materialism 16 (2008) 167–236 Th eory of the Global State: Globality as an Unfinished Revolution , Martin Shaw, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. A Th eory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and the State in a Transnational World , William I. Robinson, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2004. Th eories of a Global State: A Critique After two decades of countless studies on ‘globalisation’, …
How Did the West Usurp the Rest? Origins of the Great Divergence over theLongue Durée
Traditional explanations of the 'rise of the West' have located the sources of Western supremacy in structural or long-term developmental factors internal to Europe. By contrast, revisionist accounts have emphasized the conjunctural and contingent aspects of Europe's ascendancy, while highlighting intersocietal conditions that shaped this trajectory to global dominance. While sharing the revisionist focus on the non-Western sources of European de…
History, theory, and contingency in the study of modern international relations: The global transformation revisited
Debates engaging the problems of ahistoricism and Eurocentrism in International Relations (IR) theory have taken on new dimensions in recent years. Scholars from a variety of different theoretical traditions have aimed to reconstruct IR theory on stronger historical–sociological grounds, while re-orienting the study of IR away from the fetish of ‘Western’ thought and agency. Buzan and Lawson’s The Global Transformation offers a welcome contributi…
In World Historical Perspective: The ‘uneven’ and ‘combined’ origins of World War I
The causes of World War I remain a topic of enormous intellectual interest. Yet, despite the immensity of the literature, historiographical and IR debates remain mired within unhelpful methodological dichotomies revolving around whether a ‘primacy of foreign policy’ versus ‘primacy of domestic politics’ or systemic versus unit-level approach best account for the war’s origins. Given that this historiography is the most prolific body of literature…
Lineages of Capital
Our reply focuses on three key themes raised in the symposium. First, we discuss an enduring issue in Marxist International Relations: ‘the problematic of the international’ and the problems of methodological internalism. We examine how our interlocutors have responded to this problematic and why we consider these responses insufficient. Specifically, we suggest that the source of our disagreement is grounded in two divergent understandings of th…
International relations between war and revolution: Wilsonian diplomacy and the making of the Treaty of Versailles
The international political economy of appeasement: The social sources of British foreign policy during the 1930s
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Critical Dialogues: Habermasian Social Theory and International Relations
The works of Jürgen Habermas have been a theoretical inspiration for many students of international relations (IR). To date, however, the majority of critical IR approaches drawing from the Habermasian perspective have done so on purely philosophical grounds. This article will thus explore the utility of the social-theoretical aspects of Habermas's work for critical inquiries into world politics. To this end, it will examine four main elements of…
The difference multiplicity makes: The American Civil War as passive revolution
This article examines and further develops the relationship between the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD), recently taken up by International Relations (IR) scholars to furnish a social theory of ‘the international’, and the Gramscian concept of ‘passive revolution’, which refers to a molecular process of top-down revolution and state formation that preserves ruling-class power by transforming its social base. To this end, the paper…
Critical Dialogues: Habermasian Social Theory and International Relations
The works of Jürgen Habermas have been a theoretical inspiration for many students of international relations (IR). To date, however, the majority of critical IR approaches drawing from the Habermasian perspective have done so on purely philosophical grounds. This article will thus explore the utility of the social-theoretical aspects of Habermas's work for critical inquiries into world politics. To this end, it will examine four main elements of…
Globalisation, Imperialism and American Hegemony
Globalisation, Imperialism and American Hegemony ." Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 19(2), pp. 203–204
Global capitalism and the states system: Explaining geopolitical conflicts in contemporary world politics
Global capitalism and the states system: explaining geopolitical conflicts in contemporary world politics." Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 20(4), pp. 531–532
Theory of the Global State: Globality as an Unfinished Revolution A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and the State in a Transnational World
190 Review Articles / Historical Materialism 16 (2008) 167–236 Th eory of the Global State: Globality as an Unfinished Revolution , Martin Shaw, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. A Th eory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and the State in a Transnational World , William I. Robinson, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2004. Th eories of a Global State: A Critique After two decades of countless studies on ‘globalisation’, …
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…
Debating uneven and combined development: Towards a Marxist theory of ‘the international’
The following is the second of a two-part section series. The first section, ‘Global capitalism and the states system’, brought together a diverse group of scholars to examine a number of issues ra
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 international political economy of appeasement: The social sources of British foreign policy during the 1930s
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism
This book brings together internationally-distinguished scholars from History, Philosophy, Development Studies, Geography, and International Relations (IR) to examine recent developments in Marxist approaches to world politics. Offering original and stimulating analyses of subjects traditionally at the forefront of Marxist studies of world politics, the collection also considers issues which have yet to be fully explored within a number of discip…
Marxism and World Politics
This book brings together internationally-distinguished scholars from History, Philosophy, Development Studies, Geography, and International Relations (IR) to examine recent developments in Marxist approaches to world politics. Offering original and stimulating analyses of subjects traditionally at the forefront of Marxist studies of world politics, the collection also considers issues which have yet to be fully explored within a number of discip…
What’s at Stake in the Transition Debate? Rethinking the Origins of Capitalism and the ‘Rise of the West’
This article draws on the theory of uneven and combined development (U&CD) to construct a non-Eurocentric and ‘internationalist’ analysis of the transition to capitalism. In doing so, we seek to respond to and rethink two challenges: exposures of Eurocentric notions of the ‘Rise of the West’ on the one hand; and recent critiques of Eurocentric assumptions in the theory of U&CD on the other. Beginning with an assessment of Robert Brenner’s Anglo-c…
In World Historical Perspective: The ‘uneven’ and ‘combined’ origins of World War I
The causes of World War I remain a topic of enormous intellectual interest. Yet, despite the immensity of the literature, historiographical and IR debates remain mired within unhelpful methodological dichotomies revolving around whether a ‘primacy of foreign policy’ versus ‘primacy of domestic politics’ or systemic versus unit-level approach best account for the war’s origins. Given that this historiography is the most prolific body of literature…
Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting The Global Colour Line
Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years' Crisis, 1914-1945
The history of the modern social sciences can be seen as a series of attempts to confront the challenges of social disorder and revolution wrought by the international expansion of capitalist social relations. Alexander Anievas focuses on one particularly significant aspect of this story: the intersocietal or geosocial origins of the two world wars, and, more broadly, the confluence of factors behind the Thirty Years' Crisis between 1914 and 1945…
The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology
1. The Longue Duree of the Far-Right: An Introduction - Richard Saull, Alexander Anievas, Neil Davidson and Adam Fabry, 2. The Origins and Persistence of the Far-Right: Capital, Class and the Pathologies of Liberal Politics - Richard Saull, 3. Mass Hysteria or a Class Act? Premonitions of Fascism between Marxism and Liberalism - Ishay Landa, 4. Hegemonic Transition, War and Opportunities for Fascist Militarism - Sefika Kumral, 5. Reaction and Ada…
Reassessing the Nazi War Economy and the Origins of the Second World War
Adam Tooze’s The Wages of Destruction has received a fair amount of scholarly attention since its publication in 2006, particularly among historians. What has received much less attention, however, are the many theoretical insights to be gleaned from Tooze’s history of the inner-workings of the Nazi war economy in the lead-up to the Second World War. This is particularly true of the numerous theoretical subjects and themes covered by Tooze of dir…
International relations between war and revolution: Wilsonian diplomacy and the making of the Treaty of Versailles
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to dominant wisdom, capitalism’s origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role. Through an outline of the uneven hi…
Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told. The book offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to the dominant wisdom, ca…
Revolutions and international relations: Rediscovering the classical bourgeois revolutions
In the modern era, revolutions have been central to the structure and dynamics of international affairs. They have always been international events: international in origin, ideology, process and effect, supercharging the rhythms and logics of any given international system. Yet, within the discipline of International Relations, the study of revolutions has remained something of a secondary subject. Not only have there been relatively few studies…
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told. How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to the do…
History, theory, and contingency in the study of modern international relations: The global transformation revisited
Debates engaging the problems of ahistoricism and Eurocentrism in International Relations (IR) theory have taken on new dimensions in recent years. Scholars from a variety of different theoretical traditions have aimed to reconstruct IR theory on stronger historical–sociological grounds, while re-orienting the study of IR away from the fetish of ‘Western’ thought and agency. Buzan and Lawson’s The Global Transformation offers a welcome contributi…
Confronting Eurocentrism, reductionism, and reification in International Historical Sociology: A reply
Limits of the Universal: The Promises and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Theory and Its Critique
This article seeks to reassess the potential merits and weaknesses of the Subaltern Studies project through the prism of Vivek Chibber’s much-publicised and controversial book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital . By critically examining Chibber’s work, the article aims to better pinpoint exactly what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ with the Subaltern Studies project, while drawing out some productive points of engagement between Marxism and po…
Political science (27 works) · Law (26 works) · Politics (26 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Political economy (16 works) · Capitalism (12 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · History (10 works)