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Radicalising Global IR: Modernity, Capitalism, and the Question of Eurocentrism
(Oxford University Press, 2022)
Theorising a non-Eurocentric “global international relations” has been a main preoccupation of scholars associated with international political sociology (IPS). In this article, I argue that scholars within the IPS tradition ...
Agrarian Change, Industrialization and Geopolitics: Beyond the Turkish Sonderweg
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
This article takes issue with the common view that the early Turkish Republic (1920-1940) followed a “special” route to modernity characterized by “state capitalism.” It argues that such a view, rooted in the Sonderweg ...
Against Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism: International Relations, Historical Sociology and Political Marxism
(Springer, 2020)
The critique of Eurocentrism has become one of the main benchmarks for critical scholarship in International Relations (IR). Unsurprisingly, the effort to overcome Eurocentric conceptions of world history has been at the ...
Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Re-interpreting the Ottoman path to modernity
(Cambridgen University Press, 2018)
Debates over ‘modernity’ have been central to the development of historical-sociological approaches to International Relations (IR). Within the bourgeoning subfield of International Historical Sociology (IHS), much work ...
The international relations of ‘bourgeois revolutions’: Disputing the Turkish Revolution
(Sage journals, 2018)
The study of revolutions is at the forefront of the growing field of International Historical Sociology. As International Historical Sociology scholars have sought to uncover the spatio-temporally changing character of ...
Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-06-30)
This book offers a radical reinterpretation of the development of the modern world through the concept of Jacobinism. It argues that the French Revolution was not just another step in the construction of capitalist modernity, ...
Property, Geopolitics, and Eurocentrism: The “Great Divergence” and the Ottoman Empire
(Sage journals, 2018)
The Ottoman Empire has thus far remained at the margin of the “Great Divergence” debate. Relatedly, no systematic attempt has been made to overcome Eurocentric views about the early modern Ottoman Empire. This paper seeks ...
Debating ‘uneven and combined development’: beyond Ottoman patrimonialism
(Springer Nature Limited, 2022)
Within the field of International Historical Sociology, much has been done to theorise the ‘international’ in historical–sociological terms. In particular, the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD) has taken ...
Class, State and Property: Modernity and Capitalism in Turkey
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)
This paper argues that the class-based analyses that seek to make sense of the recent transformation of Turkish modernity rest on a pre-given duality between the state and the bourgeoisie. This not only jettisons the ...
Capitalist Modernity a la Turca: Turkey’s ‘Great Transformation’ Reconsidered
(Sage, 2013)
Many scholars associated the recent transformation of Turkish democracy with the rise of a new bourgeois class and the neoliberal restructuring of the world economy. Using a social property relations approach, I provide a ...