Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée

Alexander Anievas is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge where he also obtained his PhD. He has published in various journals including European Journal of International Relations, Politics, Review of International Studies, International Politics and Capital & Class. He is the author of Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years’ Crisis, 1914-1945 (2014) and co-author of How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (2015). He has also edited, co-edited and contributed to Marxism and World Politics (2010), Race and Racism in International Relations ( 2014), Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics (2014), and The Longue Durée of the Far Right (2014). He is a member of the editorial collective Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.

Kamran Matin is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Sussex University, a management committee member of Centre for Advanced International Theory, and a co-founder and co-director of Sussex Uneven and Combined Development Working Group. His publications on historical sociology and premodern state-formation, postcolonial theory, political Islam, and modern Iranian history have appeared in European Journal of International Relations, Journal of international Relations and Development, and Middle East Critique. He is the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change (2013).