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
All Outputs (16)
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.ctv1g6q8z4We 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/S0102-8529.2019420200008This 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/10.1177/1354066119882991This 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-00001768Our 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 PressIn 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.
Limits of the Universal: The Promises and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Theory and Its Critique (2017)
Journal Article
Anievas, A., & Nisancioglu, K. (2017). Limits of the Universal: The Promises and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Theory and Its Critique. Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, 25(3), 36-75. https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-12341539
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/S0010417516000608Traditional 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.
Why Europe? Anti-Eurocentric Theory, History, and the Rise of Capitalism (2017)
Journal Article
Anievas, A., & Nisancioglu, K. Why Europe? Anti-Eurocentric Theory, History, and the Rise of Capitalism. Spectrum journal of global studies, 8(1), 70-98
Combination as foreign policy: the International Origins of the Ottoman Empire (2016)
Book Chapter
Nisancioglu, K. (2016). Combination as foreign policy: the International Origins of the Ottoman Empire. In A. Anievas, & K. Matin (Eds.), Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée (73-92). Rowman and Littlefield
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/10.1080/13600826.2016.1144565Deploying 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.
How The West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (2015)
Book
Anievas, A., & Nisancioglu, K. (2015). How The West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism. Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183pb6f
Review of Peter Gran, "The Rise of the Rich: A New View of Modern World History" (2014)
Journal Article
Nisancioglu, K. (2014). Review of Peter Gran, "The Rise of the Rich: A New View of Modern World History". International journal of Turkish studies, 20(1/2),
What’s at Stake in the Transition Debate? Rethinking the Origins of Capitalism and the “Rise of the West" (2013)
Journal Article
Anievas, A., & Nisancioglu, K. (2013). What’s at Stake in the Transition Debate? Rethinking the Origins of Capitalism and the “Rise of the West". Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 42(1), 78-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829813497823
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/S0260210513000181The 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.