Historical materialism and international studies: Theorising the politics of struggle in the everyday world
| Published date | 01 March 2021 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0047117821991618 |
| Date | 01 March 2021 |
| Author | Cemal Burak Tansel |
| Subject Matter | A Necessarily Historical Materialist Moment? Forum on Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis |
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International Relations
2021, Vol. 35(1) 147 –152
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A Necessarily Historical Materialist
Moment? Forum on Global Capitalism,
Global War, Global Crisis
Historical materialism
and international studies:
Theorising the politics of
struggle in the everyday world
Cemal Burak Tansel
University of Sheffield
Abstract
This forum brings together critical engagements with Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton’s
Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis to assess the prospects and limits of historical materialism
in International Studies. The authors’ call for a ‘necessarily historical materialist moment’ in
International Studies is interrogated by scholars working with historical materialist, feminist and
decolonial frameworks in and beyond International Relations (IR)/International Political Economy
(IPE). This introductory essay situates the book in relation to the wider concerns of historical
materialist IR/IPE and outlines how the contributors assess the viability of Bieler and Morton’s
historical materialist project.
Keywords
capitalism, crisis, decolonial approaches, feminism, geopolitics, historical materialism,
international political economy, international relations theory
Introduction
In a World Politics article published in 1971, Robert Berki interrogated historical mate-
rialism’s purported inability to extend its critique of capitalism to a critique of
Corresponding author:
Cemal Burak Tansel, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield, Elmfield,
Northumberland Road, Sheffield, S10 2TU, UK.
Email: c.b.tansel@sheffield.ac.uk
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