Uneven and combined development: a defense of the general abstraction

Rosenberg, Justin

doi:10.1080/09557571.2020.1835824

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“…The final section of this Special Issue comprises a forum on the significance of UCD for International Political Economy. In 2019, Justin Rosenberg and Chris Boyle mounted a distinctive analysis of the 2016 Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump (Rosenberg and Boyle 2019). Situating these events in the longue dur ee of capitalist world development, they interpreted them as the outcome of a unique historical conjuncture of uneven and combined development: neoliberal deregulation in the West had intersected with late-late industrialisation in China; this 'simultaneity of the non-simultaneous' multiplied the 'big country' effects of China's industrialisation, at a point of maximum openness in the newly deregulated world economy; this produced a major 'trade shock' that hastened the decline of manufacturing employment in Britain and the United States, in a geographical pattern that matched the distribution of the Leave and Trump votes.…”

Section: Ucd: Prospectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Results and prospects: an introduction to the CRIA special issue on UCD

Rosenberg

2021

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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This paper introduces the Special Issue on Uneven and Combined Development (UCD). It begins by briefly outlining the idea of UCD and reviewing its historyfrom its origins in the writings of Leon Trotsky to its contemporary renaissance in the field of international studies. A second section then introduces the contributions to this Special Issue, showing how they amount to a powerful new wave of UCD studies.

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Section: Ucd: Prospectsmentioning

confidence: 99%