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Connection/Relation (2025)
Book Chapter
Nisancioglu, K. (2025). Connection/Relation. In R. Crilley, N. Manchanda, L. Shepherd, C. Wilkinson, C. Biddolph, & S. Fishel (Eds.), Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations. Oxford University Press

Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (2021)
Book
Balani, S., Bhattacharyya, G., El-Enany, N., Elliot-Cooper, A., de Noronha, L., Gebrial, D., Koram, K., & Nisancioglu, K. (2021). Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State. Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1g6q8z4

We are in a moment of profound overlapping crises. The landscape of politics and entitlement is being rapidly remade. As movements against colonial legacies and state violence coincide with the rise of authoritarian regimes, it is the lens of racism,... Read More about Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State.

Teaching IR Globally, Part II (2020)
Journal Article
Sabaratnam, M., Nisancioglu, K., & Weber, M. (2020). Teaching IR Globally, Part II. Contexto internacional, 42(2), 375-415. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-8529.2019420200008

This Symposium on 'Teaching IR Globally' engages with and contributes to the current debate on non-Western and alternative analyses and the question of the inevitability of perspectivity in the field of IR and the study of global politics. This Sympo... Read More about Teaching IR Globally, Part II.

Racial Sovereignty (2019)
Journal Article
Nisancioglu, K. (2019). Racial Sovereignty. European Journal of International Relations, 26(1_supplt), 39-63. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066119882991

This article explores how International Relations (IR) might better conceptualise and analyse an underexplored but constitutive relationship between race and sovereignty. I begin with a critical analysis of the ‘orthodox account’ of sovereignty which... Read More about Racial Sovereignty.

Lineages of Capital (2018)
Journal Article
Anievas, A., & Nisancioglu, K. (2018). Lineages of Capital. Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, 26(3), 167-196. https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-00001768

Our reply focuses on three key themes raised in the symposium. First, we discuss an enduring issue in Marxist International Relations: ‘the problematic of the international’ and the problems of methodological internalism. We examine how our interlocu... Read More about Lineages of Capital.

'Introduction'. Decolonising the University (2018)
Book Chapter
Bhambra, G. K., Gebrial, D., & Nisancioglu, K. (2018). 'Introduction'. Decolonising the University. In G. K. Bhambra, K. Nisancioglu, & D. Gebrial (Eds.), Decolonising the University. Pluto Press

Decolonising the University (2018)
Book
Bhambra, G. K., Nisancioglu, K., & Gebrial, D. (Eds.). (2018). Decolonising the University. Pluto Press

In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the decolon... Read More about Decolonising the University.

How Did the West Usurp the Rest? Origins of the Great Divergence over the Longue Durée (2017)
Journal Article
Anievas, A., & Nisancioglu, K. (2017). How Did the West Usurp the Rest? Origins of the Great Divergence over the Longue Durée. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 59(1), 34-67. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417516000608

Traditional explanations of the “rise of the West” have located the sources of Western supremacy in structural or long-term developmental factors internal to Europe. By contrast, revisionist accounts have emphasized the conjunctural and contingent as... Read More about How Did the West Usurp the Rest? Origins of the Great Divergence over the Longue Durée.

Counter-Conduct in the University Factory: Locating the Occupy Sussex Campaign (2016)
Journal Article
Nisancioglu, K., & Pal, M. Counter-Conduct in the University Factory: Locating the Occupy Sussex Campaign. Global Society, 30(2), 279-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2016.1144565

Deploying the Foucauldian concepts of “conduct” and “counter-conduct”, this article provides an analysis of “Occupy Sussex”—a two-month-long student occupation launched in opposition to the outsourcing of service staff at the University of Sussex. Si... Read More about Counter-Conduct in the University Factory: Locating the Occupy Sussex Campaign.

The Ottoman Origins of Capitalism: Uneven and Combined Development and Eurocentrism (2013)
Journal Article
Nisancioglu, K. (2014). The Ottoman Origins of Capitalism: Uneven and Combined Development and Eurocentrism. Review of International Studies, 40(2), 325-347. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210513000181

The history of capitalism's origins is unmistakably Eurocentric, placing sixteenth-century developments in politics, economy, culture, and ideology squarely within the unique context of Europe. And while the disciplinary remit of International Relati... Read More about The Ottoman Origins of Capitalism: Uneven and Combined Development and Eurocentrism.