@kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) and author of “Capitalism in Contemporary: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics” (MUP, 2024)
Iran’s religious foundations and the Revolutionary Guard Corps have come to control great parts of the country’s economy. Despite the beatings that Iran has suffered, this complex remains unbroken, guest blogger @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social writes.
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I wrote this piece for @clingendael.bsky.social to trace how the fusion of Iran’s religious-revolutionary foundations and the IRGC has come to dominate the economy — a power base reinforced by U.S. sanctions, neoliberal reforms and political crises.
www.clingendael.org/publication/...
The paperback edition of my book, “Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics”, will be published in January 2026 by @manchesterup.bsky.social.
You can pre-order it here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195579/
#Iran #PoliticalEconomy
A new review of my book is out — huge thanks to Marziar Samir for the thoughtful and generous write-up. Give it a read if you’re curious.
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New article where I examine Gulf deposits to other Arab states' central banks as monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution @ripejournal.bsky.social
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One of the various books forthcoming in the @manchesterup.bsky.social book series with Progress in Political Economy (PPE) is this by @alfnilsen.bsky.social and friends. The PPE series is edited with Angela Wigger and @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social
05.12.2024 06:45 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1spectrejournal.com/raciality-co...
02.12.2024 15:54 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Don’t miss this talk today by William Robinson on the global meaning of Gaza, hosted by the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ). The event will take place online via Zoom, making it accessible worldwide. Be sure to register on Eventbrite!
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Big news! We’re ready to launch first call for book proposals in our new Modern Iran series at Bloomsbury/IB Tauris. DM me if you have questions. Look forward to strong proposals 🙏📚
15.11.2024 15:03 — 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1I’ve just created a starter pack for those working on racial capitalism, imperialism, ‘third-world’ Marxism. Let me know if you’d like to be added/removed
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Solidarity, comrade! We will fight back together 👊
20.11.2024 07:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just deactivated X/Twitter and deleted the app from my phone—feels amazing! Excited to connect with so many familiar and new faces here!
19.11.2024 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Here is the link to the article: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
19.11.2024 09:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Lastly, it shows that the agency of MENA states has been noticeable since the EU encounters difficulties in influencing GAFTA’s regulatory framework and dealing with the diverse interests of state elites in the region.
19.11.2024 08:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The paper also demonstrates that the global competitive dynamics, however, have constrained this preference, as the EU has been contested by the US in the Agadir Agreement area and China and, to a lesser extent, Russia in other GAFTA member states.
19.11.2024 08:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0On the EU scale, it shows that the EU presents itself as a leading proponent of global market openness but strategically marginalises the GAFTA Agreement in favour of the Agadir Agreement to meet its economic needs by utilising the economic potential of specific MENA industries.
19.11.2024 08:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The paper argues that the complex interplay of developments and dynamics at the EU scale, global competition scale, and MENA scale across three distinct time frames (1995–2003, 2004–11, 2012–21) has shaped the EU regional integration strategy in the MENA region.
19.11.2024 08:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The method contends that understanding the EU's strategy in the MENA requires situating it within the dynamics of neoliberal capitalism and interrelated geopolitics. It also invites us to consider spatial and temporal scales of the EU strategy to unlock its "puzzling" approach.
19.11.2024 08:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The paper introduces a dialectical method based on the ontology of the philosophy of internal relations and the epistemology of the process of abstraction. This method is used to analyse the EU's strategy, with the Agadir and GAFTA Agreements as case studies.
19.11.2024 08:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0🚨My recent co-authored article on the EU's "puzzling" and "contradictory" integration promotion strategy in the MENA region is now published in @gpejournal.bsky.social
Below is a brief thread summarising its main arguments.
Myself and @garethbryant.bsky.social have been editing the blog @ppesydney.bsky.social for 10 years now addressing the worldliness of critical political economy issues. So here's a thread celebrating its practical and theoretical diversity #HappyBirthdayPPE
www.ppesydney.net
This is amazing, thanks Jasmine!
17.11.2024 14:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!
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I'm building a Gulf Studies starter pack!
Send me relevant handles!
#menasky
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I'm building a Global Political Economy starter pack!
Many new folks joining Bluesky - send me handles!
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Coming soon! The SAGE Handbook of Decolonial Theory, of which I’m the lead editor. All royalties will be donated to Gaza. Since these books tend to be expensive, ask your libraries to purchase it when it’s published in July 2025. Cover is not official.
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