Kenneth Waltz and Leon Trotsky: Anarchy in the mirror of uneven and combined development

Rosenberg, Justin

doi:10.1057/ip.2013.6

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“…Bismarck's protectionist response led to deepening tariff conflict abroad while installing a new reactionary political bloc at home – the “marriage of iron and rye”. It was this hybrid outcome, triggered by the staggering of industrialization between Europe and North America, that set the Kaiserreich on a “collision course” with Russia, a course that would end in the July Crisis of 1914 (Gordon, :207; see also Rosenberg, :205ff).…”

Section: Ipe and The Present As Historymentioning

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Understanding 2016: China, Brexit and Trump in the history of uneven and combined development

Rosenberg

Boyle

2019

J Historical Sociology

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This article uses the theory of uneven and combined development (U&CD) to produce a novel explanation of ‘Brexit and Trump’ – the two shock political events of 2016. The argument proceeds in three steps. First, we identify the global conjuncture of historical unevenness in which the votes occurred: how the neoliberal transformation of the advanced capitalist countries was synchronized with the radically different process of primitive accumulation in China. Second, we apply the theory of U&CD to this peculiar ‘simultaneity of the non‐simultaneous’: the ‘big country’ effects of China's industrialization, we find, were thrice multiplied by its combination with the advanced sectors of the world economy, which accelerated China's take‐off, brought forward its export phase, and widened its export profile at a moment of maximum openness in international trade. Finally, this produced the pattern of development that led to the events of 2016: the resultant trade shocks intensified the internal inequalities of British and American societies in ways that match the geography of the Leave and Trump votes. The analysis has a wider intellectual implication too, for the phenomena of historical unevenness and combination are intrinsic to the history of the global political economy; and the theory of U&CD therefore has a unique contribution to make to the field of International Political Economy.

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Section: Ipe and The Present As Historymentioning

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Understanding 2016: China, Brexit and Trump in the history of uneven and combined development

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Boyle

2019

J Historical Sociology

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“…Rosenberg (1994) had once defended the Marxist version of strong discontinuism. But Rosenberg (2013) adopts a moderate discontinuism. He accepts that 'the international' or 'political multiplicity' has a long history stretching back at least as far as the dawn of settled agriculture.…”

Section: Strong Discontinuism In Marxist Conceptions Of the Internatimentioning

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Discontinuism is an approach to thinking about macrohistory and large-scale change. This essay analyses and evaluates it, the first sustained investigation of discontinuism. Two forms or models of discontinuism are distinguished: a strong and a moderate version. It is proposed that the strong discontinuist model of history emphasizes the recency, shallow -roots, sudden appearance, distinctness, and likely impersistence of core features of the contemporary world. Examples of strong discontinuism are discussed in classical thought as well in relation to recent thinking about the macrohistory of nations, territoriality, the great divergence or rise of the West, and the international system. It is argued that strong discontinuism is flawed and untenable but moderate discontinuism is viable.

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“…Globalists speak of a "flat" and "borderless world" in which global capital and finance can, thanks to technology, move across the world in an instant (Ohmae 1999;Friedman 2005), whereas Marxist-influenced theorists have examined the world as consisting not of states-in-anarchy, but rather of a core and periphery, connected via hierarchical relations of global elites (Wallerstein 2004). These approaches differ radically from neorealist approaches in their focus on the role of "uneven and combined development" in structuring the international, as opposed to the structural feature of "anarchy" (Rosenberg 2013a(Rosenberg , 2013b.…”

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Spaces of Global Security: Beyond Methodological Nationalism

Adamson

2016

J Glob Secur Stud

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The changing political and social meanings of space under conditions of advanced globalization point to the need to analyze security-or the deployment and management of violence-as a socio-spatial practice. This article draws attention to the "methodological nationalist' bias that has traditionally characterized mainstream security studies, and discusses its effect on how security issues are studied and conceptualized. Building on insights from political geography and sociology, the article makes the case for a "spatial turn" in the field. It demonstrates how a socio-spatial approach can help make sense of evolving state security practices, and presents examples of non-national spaces of securityincluding cities, cyberspace, and the global polity. Such spaces are increasingly objects of security practices, although the implications of this remain largely under-theorized in security studies.

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Kenneth Waltz and Leon Trotsky: Anarchy in the mirror of uneven and combined development

Cited by 90 publications

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Understanding 2016: China, Brexit and Trump in the history of uneven and combined development

Understanding 2016: China, Brexit and Trump in the history of uneven and combined development

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