Luke Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3781018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2060-1498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ukraine, Russia and new wars
This article examines the relevance of the Russo-Ukrainian War to the new wars analysis. The Russo-Ukrainian War is formally a conventional war fought by states for the political control of territory (i.e., an ‘old war’), but it is also a conflagration that emerges out of the organized violence and instabilities of the post-Cold War world, and involves, in the form of Russia, a consummate ‘new war’ actor. What makes the Russo-Ukrainian War distin…
Survival and ‘Civicness’ in the Shadow of Russian Power
Authoritarian protectionism and the post-neoliberal transition
This article returns to Stuart Hall’s account of Thatcherism to consider the interaction between consent-based hegemonic devices and the structural compulsions that emanate from political-economic transitions. It argues that Hall’s method of articulation offers a middle position in analysing contemporary authoritarian trends, which recognises the role of structural constraints and logics, as well as the discursive construction of ideology in enab…
Generating instability? The impact of the EU's hybrid migration governance in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan
This article analyses the migration agreements between the European Union (EU) and Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. These international policy frameworks were negotiated in tandem with one another, and all were announced in 2016. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the three countries, the article argues that they fuse humanitarian elements with a bloc‐based security logic in an ad‐hoc mix that lacks substantive legitimacy in the three states, rendering…
From ‘I won’t protect you’ to ‘I will’
The following article represents the author response to the roundtable on Authoritarian Contagion; the Global Threat to Democracy (Bristol University Press, 2021)
Imagined communities
Drawing on the concept of uneven and combined development this article critically interrogates Benedict Anderson's theory of the 'imagined community' through an historical investigation into the English-realm-cum-British-empire. Placing its rise in the context of the conflicts of Post-Reformation Europe, it identifies vectors of combined development (money, goods, ideas, people) which shaped the formation of new imagined communities. These post-R…
Debating Uneven and Combined Development/Debating International Relations
This forum arises from an online event on the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD). Following an introduction which proposes a ‘special affinity’ between UCD and International Relations (IR), four presenters at that event discuss their ‘view from outside’ UCD, including perspectives from Global Historical Sociology, Realism, Decolonial theory and Gramscian Marxism. Meanwhile four members of the audience add their views on UCD and disci…
Worlds beyond capitalism
This article explores the implications of uneven and combined development for how system-change is conceptualised. The current moment has featured extensive discussions of how technological transformation is altering the nature of our economy, labour force and environment. Postcapitalists argue that zero cost production undermines the price mechanism in capitalism and opens up new emancipatory possibilities for the construction of the commons. Th…
Get Brexit Done’
This article analyses the successful Conservative election campaign of 2019 and how it took advantage of a fractured political and economic landscape. It reviews the unique circumstances around the 2019 election and the ‘surprising death’ of a no‐deal Brexit. We then analyse the divergent political communication strategies in the 2017 and 2019 Conservative campaigns showing how the latter was much more coherent and politically unorthodox. Drawing…
The Global Transformation
George Lawson and Barry Buzan's The Global Transformation advances the claim that International Relations (IR) has mistakenly overlooked the Long Nineteenth Century as a transformative era. They argue this period saw a shift in the mode of power, i.e. how power was utilised and expressed, and not merely a change in how it was distributed amongst competing political entities. The following offers a sympathetic critique of their theoretical claims.…
Citizenship, Identity and Social Movements in the New Hong Kong
The international relations of the ‘imagined community’
Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities has long been established as one of the major contributions to theories of nations and nationalism. Anderson located the rise of national identities within a long-evolving crisis of dynastic conceptions of identity, time, and space, and argued print-capitalism was the key cultural and economic force in the genesis of nations. This article offers a critical appropriation and application of Anderson's theory…
The Oxford handbook of the history of communism
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLuke CooperLuke Cooper (PhD, University of Sussex) is an assistant professor of international history at Richmond, the American International University in London. His research interests include historical sociology, nationalism, communism and modern Chinese development
Can contingency be ‘internalized’ into the bounds of theory? Critical realism, the philosophy of internal relations and the solution of ‘uneven and combined development
Can general mechanisms governing social life (necessity) and the possibility of multiple outcomes in socio-historical processes (contingency) be incorporated into a single theoretical framework? In recent years, the critical realist philosophy of science has emerged as an intellectual strand within international relations (IR) that makes theoretical claims about necessary social processes while recognizing the irreducible role of contingency. How…
Get Brexit Done’
This article analyses the successful Conservative election campaign of 2019 and how it took advantage of a fractured political and economic landscape. It reviews the unique circumstances around the 2019 election and the ‘surprising death’ of a no‐deal Brexit. We then analyse the divergent political communication strategies in the 2017 and 2019 Conservative campaigns showing how the latter was much more coherent and politically unorthodox. Drawing…
Can contingency be ‘internalized’ into the bounds of theory? Critical realism, the philosophy of internal relations and the solution of ‘uneven and combined development
Can general mechanisms governing social life (necessity) and the possibility of multiple outcomes in socio-historical processes (contingency) be incorporated into a single theoretical framework? In recent years, the critical realist philosophy of science has emerged as an intellectual strand within international relations (IR) that makes theoretical claims about necessary social processes while recognizing the irreducible role of contingency. How…
Debating Uneven and Combined Development/Debating International Relations
This forum arises from an online event on the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD). Following an introduction which proposes a ‘special affinity’ between UCD and International Relations (IR), four presenters at that event discuss their ‘view from outside’ UCD, including perspectives from Global Historical Sociology, Realism, Decolonial theory and Gramscian Marxism. Meanwhile four members of the audience add their views on UCD and disci…
The Oxford handbook of the history of communism
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLuke CooperLuke Cooper (PhD, University of Sussex) is an assistant professor of international history at Richmond, the American International University in London. His research interests include historical sociology, nationalism, communism and modern Chinese development
Generating instability? The impact of the EU's hybrid migration governance in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan
This article analyses the migration agreements between the European Union (EU) and Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. These international policy frameworks were negotiated in tandem with one another, and all were announced in 2016. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the three countries, the article argues that they fuse humanitarian elements with a bloc‐based security logic in an ad‐hoc mix that lacks substantive legitimacy in the three states, rendering…
Imagined communities
Drawing on the concept of uneven and combined development this article critically interrogates Benedict Anderson's theory of the 'imagined community' through an historical investigation into the English-realm-cum-British-empire. Placing its rise in the context of the conflicts of Post-Reformation Europe, it identifies vectors of combined development (money, goods, ideas, people) which shaped the formation of new imagined communities. These post-R…
The Global Transformation
George Lawson and Barry Buzan's The Global Transformation advances the claim that International Relations (IR) has mistakenly overlooked the Long Nineteenth Century as a transformative era. They argue this period saw a shift in the mode of power, i.e. how power was utilised and expressed, and not merely a change in how it was distributed amongst competing political entities. The following offers a sympathetic critique of their theoretical claims.…
The international relations of the ‘imagined community’
Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities has long been established as one of the major contributions to theories of nations and nationalism. Anderson located the rise of national identities within a long-evolving crisis of dynastic conceptions of identity, time, and space, and argued print-capitalism was the key cultural and economic force in the genesis of nations. This article offers a critical appropriation and application of Anderson's theory…
Can contingency be ‘internalized’ into the bounds of theory? Critical realism, the philosophy of internal relations and the solution of ‘uneven and combined development
Can general mechanisms governing social life (necessity) and the possibility of multiple outcomes in socio-historical processes (contingency) be incorporated into a single theoretical framework? In recent years, the critical realist philosophy of science has emerged as an intellectual strand within international relations (IR) that makes theoretical claims about necessary social processes while recognizing the irreducible role of contingency. How…
The Oxford handbook of the history of communism
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLuke CooperLuke Cooper (PhD, University of Sussex) is an assistant professor of international history at Richmond, the American International University in London. His research interests include historical sociology, nationalism, communism and modern Chinese development
The international relations of the ‘imagined community’
Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities has long been established as one of the major contributions to theories of nations and nationalism. Anderson located the rise of national identities within a long-evolving crisis of dynastic conceptions of identity, time, and space, and argued print-capitalism was the key cultural and economic force in the genesis of nations. This article offers a critical appropriation and application of Anderson's theory…
Citizenship, Identity and Social Movements in the New Hong Kong
The Global Transformation
George Lawson and Barry Buzan's The Global Transformation advances the claim that International Relations (IR) has mistakenly overlooked the Long Nineteenth Century as a transformative era. They argue this period saw a shift in the mode of power, i.e. how power was utilised and expressed, and not merely a change in how it was distributed amongst competing political entities. The following offers a sympathetic critique of their theoretical claims.…
Worlds beyond capitalism
This article explores the implications of uneven and combined development for how system-change is conceptualised. The current moment has featured extensive discussions of how technological transformation is altering the nature of our economy, labour force and environment. Postcapitalists argue that zero cost production undermines the price mechanism in capitalism and opens up new emancipatory possibilities for the construction of the commons. Th…
Get Brexit Done’
This article analyses the successful Conservative election campaign of 2019 and how it took advantage of a fractured political and economic landscape. It reviews the unique circumstances around the 2019 election and the ‘surprising death’ of a no‐deal Brexit. We then analyse the divergent political communication strategies in the 2017 and 2019 Conservative campaigns showing how the latter was much more coherent and politically unorthodox. Drawing…
Debating Uneven and Combined Development/Debating International Relations
This forum arises from an online event on the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD). Following an introduction which proposes a ‘special affinity’ between UCD and International Relations (IR), four presenters at that event discuss their ‘view from outside’ UCD, including perspectives from Global Historical Sociology, Realism, Decolonial theory and Gramscian Marxism. Meanwhile four members of the audience add their views on UCD and disci…
From ‘I won’t protect you’ to ‘I will’
The following article represents the author response to the roundtable on Authoritarian Contagion; the Global Threat to Democracy (Bristol University Press, 2021)
Imagined communities
Drawing on the concept of uneven and combined development this article critically interrogates Benedict Anderson's theory of the 'imagined community' through an historical investigation into the English-realm-cum-British-empire. Placing its rise in the context of the conflicts of Post-Reformation Europe, it identifies vectors of combined development (money, goods, ideas, people) which shaped the formation of new imagined communities. These post-R…
Generating instability? The impact of the EU's hybrid migration governance in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan
This article analyses the migration agreements between the European Union (EU) and Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. These international policy frameworks were negotiated in tandem with one another, and all were announced in 2016. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the three countries, the article argues that they fuse humanitarian elements with a bloc‐based security logic in an ad‐hoc mix that lacks substantive legitimacy in the three states, rendering…
Authoritarian protectionism and the post-neoliberal transition
This article returns to Stuart Hall’s account of Thatcherism to consider the interaction between consent-based hegemonic devices and the structural compulsions that emanate from political-economic transitions. It argues that Hall’s method of articulation offers a middle position in analysing contemporary authoritarian trends, which recognises the role of structural constraints and logics, as well as the discursive construction of ideology in enab…
Ukraine, Russia and new wars
This article examines the relevance of the Russo-Ukrainian War to the new wars analysis. The Russo-Ukrainian War is formally a conventional war fought by states for the political control of territory (i.e., an ‘old war’), but it is also a conflagration that emerges out of the organized violence and instabilities of the post-Cold War world, and involves, in the form of Russia, a consummate ‘new war’ actor. What makes the Russo-Ukrainian War distin…
Survival and ‘Civicness’ in the Shadow of Russian Power
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