Section: Student Profiles

James Allinson

Name
James Allinson
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Edinburgh UK
E-Mail
Research Interests
Marxism,Historical sociology,IR and Middle East
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/student_profiles/jamile_allinson
James Allinson

Qualifications

  • MA(Hons) International Relations, St Andrews University
  • MA International Political Economy, Tsukuba University
  • MSc Social Research (Politics), University of Edinburgh

Working Title

 Uneven and Combined Development and Arab nationalism: the social origins of Jordanian Foreign Policy from the Baghdad Pact to the Iraqi Revolution

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the intersection of Historical Sociology, International Relations theory and Political Economy. I am particularly interested in the application of Leon Trotsky’s concept of uneven and combined development to those fields. My PhD focuses on uneven and combined development as an explanation for the geopolitical alignments of the Jordanian Hashemite regime during the high tide of Arab nationalism in the 1950s. I recently spent a year in Amman conducting fieldwork.  I also have outside interests in game theory and Japan

Supervisors

Dr. Toby Kelly

Dr. Adham Saouli

Professor Roland Dannreuther, Westminster University (former first supervisor)

Awards

  • ESRC studentship
  • Japanese Ministry of Education Scholarship 2003-2006
  • Nisbet Prize (for best degree in graduating year at St Andrews)

Publications and/or Conference Papers

 Allinson, J.C. and Anievas, A. (2010) 'Approaching "The International": Beyond Political Marxism' in Anievas A. (ed.) Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism, Routledge, London

 Allinson, J.C. and Anievas, A. (2010)  'The Uneven and Combined Development of the Meiji Restoration: A Passive Revolutionary Road to Capitalist Modernity' forthcoming in Capital and Class 100

Allinson, J.C. and Anievas, A. (2009) 'The uses and misuses of uneven and combined development: An anatomy of a concept' Cambridge Review of International Affairs 22:1

Conference Papers

'Uneven and Combined Developmen­t and the Hashemite Response to Arab Nationalis­m' (upcoming) EJIR -Standing Group on International Relations Conference, Stockholm, 9th-11th September 2010

'Jordanian alignment in the Nasserist era: rethinking­ ‘the State and the Tribe’ (upcoming) World Congress for Middle East Studies, Barcelona, 21st of July 2010

'The Jordanian Military and the Persistenc­e of the Colonial State', Performing Colonial Modernity Conference, School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh, 19th of May 2010

'The Meiji Restoratio­n - Japan's Passive Revolution' Left Forum, PACE University, New York City, 21st of March 2010

'From budget security to uneven and combined developmen­t: the case of Jordanian "security" in the Nasserist era',BISA Historical Sociolgy Workshop on International Security and Historical Sociology, Sussex University, 17th of September 2009

 'Workers and Communists­ in Jordan’s Years of Crisis’, 10th Mediterranean Research Meeting, European University Institute, Montecatini, Italy, 25th of March 2009

'Contours of A New Arab Left? Trotsky's Case for Optimism in the Contemporary Middle East' Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, 8th of November 2008

'The Uneven and Combined Development of Middle East Authoritarianism,' Political Studies Association Northern Graduate Conference, 25th of  May, 2007.

Tutoring Experience

I have tutored on the following undergraduate courses at the University of Edinburgh:

Spring 2010 International Security

Autumn 2009 International Political Economy

Spring 2008 Social and Political Theory; International Political Economy

Autumn 2007 Introduction to Politics and International Relations

Spring 2007 Politics of the Middle East

Other Experience

Visiting Researcher, Center for Strategic Studies, Jordan University, Amman 2008-2009

Research Group Membership

International Politics, International Political Economy

 

This page was published on 21 October 2010


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