Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations

Eren Duzgun is assistant professor at the University of Nottingham, China Campus. His research focuses on historical sociology, political economy and international relations. His work has appeared in the European Journal of International Relations, the Review of International Studies, the Journal of International Relations and Development and the European Journal of Sociology, among other scholarly outlets.

• Acknowledgements: 1. Introduction; 2. Modernity, historicity and transdisciplinarity; 3. Capitalism, absolutism, Jacobinism: The international relations of modernity; 4. Disputing Ottoman modernity (1839-1918); 5. Kemalism as the ultimate Turkish substitution for capitalism (1923-1945); 6. Reinterpreting capitalist modernity a la Turca; 7. Conclusion.

'Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity makes a powerful case for rethinking the course of modern world development through his masterful account Jacobinism as an alternative route to modernity. It is also an indispensable source for understanding the origins, contradictions and likely direction of Turkey's ongoing attempts at redefining its place and role in contemporary world.' Kamran Matin, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Sussex University