Spring Term 2018
Meeting 1
May 3, 14:00-16:00, Fulton 113
Julian Germann (2018). ‘Beyond ‘geo-economics’: Advanced unevenness and the anatomy of German austerity’, European Journal of International Relations.
Presenter: Julian Germann
Chris Boyle & Justin Rosenberg. Explaining 2016: Brexit and Trump in the History of Uneven and Combined Development.
Presenters: Chris Boyle and Justin Rosenberg.
Meeting 2
December 5th 2018
‘Trotsky’s Error: Multiplicity and the Secret Origins of Revolutionary Marxism’
Presenter: Justin Rosenberg
Spring Term 2017
Meeting 1
March 16, 15:00-17:00, Essex House 018
U&CD and Colonial Modernity
David L. Blaney & Arlene B. Tickner. “International Relations in the Prison of Colonial Modernity.”International Relations, 31:1, 2017.
Justin Rosenberg. “The Elusive International.” International Relations, 31:1, 2017.
Frantz Fanon. The Wretched of the Earth.
Presenter: Justin Rosenberg
Autumn Term 2013
Meeting 1
October 30, 15:00-17:00, Jubilee 35
Hannes Lacher & Julian Germann. “Before Hegemony: Britain, Free Trade, and Nineteenth-Century World Order Revisited.” International Studies Review, 14:1, 2012.
Presenter: Julian Germann
Spring Term 2013
Meeting 1
February 6, 12:00-14:00, Pevensey -1/Room 2A3
Benedict Anderson’s Theory of Nations/Nationalism and U&CD
Presenter: Luke Cooper
Meeting 2
March 27, 14:00-16:00, Jubilee 35
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Capitalism? U&CD, Mode of Production Analysis and Eurocentrism
Presenters: Darius A’Zami and Neil Dooley
Meeting 3
April 17, 14:00-16:00
Anievas, A. & Nisancioglu, K. (2013)”What’s at Stake in the Transition Debate? Rethinking the Origins of Capitalism and the ‘Rise of the West’”, Millennium.
Presenter: Kerem Nisancioglu
Spring Term 2012
Meeting 1
February 1, 2:30-4:30
On the Fall of the OttomanEmpire
Presenter: Kerem Nisancioglu
Meeting 2
February 22, 2:30-4:30
The Moment of Combined Development
Presenter: Neil Davidson
Meeting 3
March 14, 2:30-4:30
The “Philosophical Premises” of Uneven and Combined Development
Presenter: Justin Rosenberg
Autumn Term 2011
Meetings take place on Mondays at 2-4pm, in weeks 2, 7, and 9 of the term
Meeting 1
What are the Politics of Uneven and Combined Development?
Room: BH254
Presenters: Kamran Matin, Ben Selwyn
Text 1: ‘Beyond firm-centrism: re-integrating labour and capitalism into global
commodity chain analysis’, B. Selwyn, Journal of Economic Geography (2011).
Text 2: TBA
Meeting 2
China and U&CD – then and now
Room: BH253
Presenters: Calvin Xiu, Luke Cooper
Text 1: Deutscher, I., ‘Maoism – Its Origins and Outlook’, in I. Deutscher, Marxism,
Wars and Revolutions. Essays from Four Decades, London, Verso 1984, pp. 181-211.
Text 2: TBA
Meeting 3
Dialectics and U&CD: tradition and innovation
Room: FR118
Presenters: Justin Rosenberg, Benno Teschke
Text 1: Rosenberg, J. ‘Realising the Promise of Dialectics in IR’ (unpublished mss.)
Text 2: Teschke & Heine? Brincatt?
Spring Term 2011
Meetings take place on Tuesdays in B380, at 3-5pm, in weeks 2, 5, and 9 of the term.
Meeting 1 – Tuesday January 18th: Extensions?
Novack, G. (1972) ‘Uneven and Combined Development in World History’, in
Understanding History. Marxist Essays, New York: Pathfinder.
Allinson, J. C. and Alexander Anievas (2009) ‘The uses and misuses of uneven and
combined development: an anatomy of a concept’, Cambridge Review of International
Affairs, 22:1, 47–67.
Rosenberg, J. 2010. ‘Basic problems in the Theory of Uneven and Combined
Development. Part II: Unevenness and Political Multiplicity’, Cambridge Review of
International Affairs, 23: 1, 165-189.
Meeting 2 – Tuesday February 8th: U&CD and Feudalism
Nisancioglu, K., Paper to be circulated
Meeting 3 – Tuesday March 8th: U&CD and Postcolonialism
Matin, K. ‘Redeeming the Universal. Postcolonialism and the Inner Life of Eurocentrism’. (To be circulated).
Autumn Term 2010
Meetings take place on Thursdays in B380, at 2-4pm, in weeks 2, 7, and 9 of the term.
(N.B. Please note the new date for Meeting 2.)
Meeting 1 – Thursday October 14th: Locus Classicus
Trotsky, L. (1932/1980) History of the Russian Revolution, Chapter 1, & Appendix I,
New York: Pathfinder.
Thatcher, I. (1991) ‘Uneven and Combined Development’, Revolutionary Russia, 4; 2;
235-58
Elster, J. (1986) ‘The theory of combined and uneven development: a critique’, inAnalytical
Marxism, edited by J. Roemer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Meeting 2 – Thursday November 18th: Marxian Precursors?
Marx, K. (1973), Grundrisse, Penguin: Harmondsworth, pages, 489-511.
Cooper, L. Discussion paper on Marx and ‘the international’
Löwy, M. (1981) ‘Conceptions of Revolution in Marx and Engels’, chapter 1 of
The politics of Combined and Uneven Development. The Theory of Permanent
Revolution, London: Verso
Shanin, T. ed. (1983) ‘Marx-Zasulich Correspondence: Letters and Drafts’, in Late
Marx and the Russian Road. Marx and ‘the peripheries of capitalism’, pp.97-126,
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Meeting 3 – Thursday December 2nd: Extensions? (Postponed due to snow.)
Novack, G. (1972) ‘Uneven and Combined Development in World History’, in
Understanding History. Marxist Essays, New York: Pathfinder.
Allinson, J. C. and Alexander Anievas (2009) ‘The uses and misuses of uneven and
combined development: an anatomy of a concept’, Cambridge Review of International
Affairs, 22:1, 47–67.
Rosenberg, J. 2010. ‘Basic problems in the Theory of Uneven and Combined
Development. Part II: Unevenness and Political Multiplicity’, Cambridge Review of
International Affairs, 23: 1, 165-189.
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