Samir Amin’s legacy encompasses both his activism and scholarship. As I argue in a recent Legacy piece in Development & Change, Samir Amin achieved more in both spheres than most activists and academics, but the combination is what sets him apart.
Amin was a socialist from an [...]
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My latest book Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A History critically analyses the theorising of imperialism over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present. Analysis of Marxist engagement with imperialism during this period reveals three distinct phases of theorising. The [...]
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Afghan women could serve as ideal messengers in humanizing the ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] role in combating the Taliban because of women’s ability to speak personally and credibly about their experiences under the Taliban, their aspirations for [...]
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Opponents of the Iraq war often highlight the importance of oil when explaining why the invasion took place. While leaders at the time denied it was a motivation there is no doubt the country’s huge oilfields did offer possible post-conflict opportunities for the Iraqi industry and [...]
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Imperialism confronts us in a number of guises: either as formal or informal, a period of history, a type of state, or a monolithic institution, a thing-unto-itself, called an ‘empire’. These are all quite common views of imperialism in both popular and academic literature. In recent years, [...]
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Polarizing Development is the result of a collaborative project that started in 2011 with a debate on the theoretical foundations of development studies. We realised that after ten years from the height of the alter-globalisation movement and four years after the eruption of the global [...]
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Both Andreas Bieler and me want to thank Alex Callinicos for his engagement and reply ‘Fighting the Last War’ to our article, ‘Axis of Evil or Access to Diesel?: Spaces of New Imperialism and the Iraq War’ published in Historical Materialism. Despite some of the language of his [...]
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Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton have just published a long and wide ranging article on imperialism.1 Since my own version of the classical Marxist theory of imperialism, along with William Robinson’s theory of transnational capitalism, serves as a counterfoil for their own argument, I thought [...]
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