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9781783486816 1783486813 The concept of 'uneven and combined development' was originally coined by Leon Trotsky to theorise Tsarist Russia's distinctive experience of modernity and revolution. But it has re-emerged over the last decade or so as a burgeoning research programme within International Relations (IR) and historical sociology. It has been critically and creatively deployed in two main areas: the provision of a sociological foundation to international theory overcoming the chronic schism between sociological and geopolitical modes of enquiry; and, relatedly, in superseding prevailing Eurocentric approaches in the social sciences. This volume is the first to provide a sustained reflection on the idea of uneven and combined development as the intellectual basis for a non-Eurocentric social theory of the international . It does so through a series of empirically rich and theoretically informed analyses of socio-historical change, political transformation, and intersocietal conflict over the longue duree. The volume thereby aims to demonstrate the unique potentials of uneven and combined development in overcoming IR and historical sociology s shared inability to theorize the interactive and multilinear character of development.", Uneven and combined development was a term that Trotsky used to understand and to describe the overall dynamics of human history. Shedding its Marxist overtones, the term has more recently emerged as a thriving new research program in IR, being used to unify international and social theory. This volume is the first to provide a collection of theoretically-informed empirical analyses of sociohistorical change, transformation, and intersocietal conflict over the longue duree. It draws from a variety of non-Eurocentric perspectives to show how the theory of uneven and combined development might offer a solution to long-standing problems around the inability of both IR and historical sociology to satisfactorily capture the differentiated and multilinear character of sociohistorical development. The chapters critically and creatively draw upon and further develop the concept of uneven and combined development to incorporate both sociological and geopolitical modes of historical explanation into a single, unified theoretical framework. The book develops and refines the theory of uneven and combined development, with critical reflections on its development given by esteemed scholars in the fields of IR and historical sociology."
9781783486816 1783486813 The concept of 'uneven and combined development' was originally coined by Leon Trotsky to theorise Tsarist Russia's distinctive experience of modernity and revolution. But it has re-emerged over the last decade or so as a burgeoning research programme within International Relations (IR) and historical sociology. It has been critically and creatively deployed in two main areas: the provision of a sociological foundation to international theory overcoming the chronic schism between sociological and geopolitical modes of enquiry; and, relatedly, in superseding prevailing Eurocentric approaches in the social sciences. This volume is the first to provide a sustained reflection on the idea of uneven and combined development as the intellectual basis for a non-Eurocentric social theory of the international . It does so through a series of empirically rich and theoretically informed analyses of socio-historical change, political transformation, and intersocietal conflict over the longue duree. The volume thereby aims to demonstrate the unique potentials of uneven and combined development in overcoming IR and historical sociology s shared inability to theorize the interactive and multilinear character of development.", Uneven and combined development was a term that Trotsky used to understand and to describe the overall dynamics of human history. Shedding its Marxist overtones, the term has more recently emerged as a thriving new research program in IR, being used to unify international and social theory. This volume is the first to provide a collection of theoretically-informed empirical analyses of sociohistorical change, transformation, and intersocietal conflict over the longue duree. It draws from a variety of non-Eurocentric perspectives to show how the theory of uneven and combined development might offer a solution to long-standing problems around the inability of both IR and historical sociology to satisfactorily capture the differentiated and multilinear character of sociohistorical development. The chapters critically and creatively draw upon and further develop the concept of uneven and combined development to incorporate both sociological and geopolitical modes of historical explanation into a single, unified theoretical framework. The book develops and refines the theory of uneven and combined development, with critical reflections on its development given by esteemed scholars in the fields of IR and historical sociology."