Do we need another analysis of Thatcherism? Alexander Gallas must think so, because that is exactly what he has produced, in The Thatcherite Offensive: A neo-Poulantzasian analysis.
Understanding the implications of Margaret Thatcher’s prime-ministership, and Thatcherism more broadly, [...]
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My book starts from the observation that the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments sought to systematically constrain organised labour. Thatcher’s mentor and close ally Keith Joseph published a pamphlet in February 1979 entitled Solving the Union Problem is The Key to Britain’s [...]
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Let us start from the end. State, Power, Socialism (1978) is closed with a section entitled “Towards a democratic socialism” (Part Five). Poulantzas therein condensed basic tenets of his positioning before the debates around democracy and socialism running in the 1970s. These debates [...]
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Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Philosophies, Practices, Processes (Section 3)
Call for papers for the 10th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, 7–10 September 2016, Izmir, Turkey.
Despite the severity of the 2007-8 global [...]
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In a recent article and book chapter – Kanishka Jayasuriya and I outlined a distinctive approach to the analysis of the Australia-China relationship – a state transformation perspective – that goes beyond the dominant international relations problematic on this [...]
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The unfolding refugee crisis in Europe’s borderlands is a tragic reminder of how international security has changed. Traditionally, security was seen to involve building military strength to deter or repel attacks by other states. Today, beyond a handful of ‘flashpoints’, so-called [...]
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