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About Geoffrey Gordon
Geoffrey Gordon is a PhD candidate in comparative politics at the University of Virginia. He is writing a dissertation about the politics of guardian democracies, in which militaries share power with elected governments, over the long term, focusing on Turkey and Thailand. His research interests include civil-military relations, critical political economy, political regimes, state theory, and anti-racist and post-colonial approaches to political science research.NBN Episodes hosted by Geoffrey:
December 28, 2022
Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations
Western interpretations of the Ottoman age of reform and the Turkish Republic often evaluate these histories against an idealized, essentialized narra…
November 14, 2022
Spatializing Authoritarianism
How do authoritarian political leaders use the built environment to shape understandings of national identity and history? How do major urban developm…
October 27, 2022
The Age of Counter-Revolution
The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented amount of protests for far-reaching social change around the world – from the Arab Spring and Occ…
February 21, 2022
Towards an Improper Politics
Historically, discourses of racial, civilizational, and sexual difference have inevitably been entangled with, shaped by, and constitutive of institut…
February 4, 2022
Making Constituencies
The common-sense way of thinking about what representatives should do in democracies tends to revolve around the concept of responsiveness: representa…
March 29, 2021
Trouble of the World
The middle decades of the 19th century witnessed the expansion of slavery and white settlement and dispossession of Indigenous lands west of the Missi…
January 29, 2021
From Development to Dictatorship
How do ideologies of development shape the perceptions of security threats of US foreign policymakers and the political and military leaders of develo…
November 20, 2020
On Borders
When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as …
September 14, 2020
Resource Radicals
In 2007, Ecuador joined the Latin American “Pink Tide” by electing a left-wing president, Rafael Correa, who voiced opposition to US imperialism and a…
September 1, 2020
Money, Markets, and Monarchies
When most Westerners think of the Gulf, the first thing that comes to mind is often oil. However, as Adam Hanieh demonstrates in Money, Markets, and M…
June 19, 2020
Anatomies of Revolution
The success of populist politicians and the emergence of social justice movements around the world, and the recent demonstrations against police viole…
June 17, 2020
Violence Work
Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police a…
June 8, 2020
Hotels and Highways
During the opening decades of the Cold War, US policymakers and academics used modernization theory to provide an alternative model to communism for i…
May 27, 2020
First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship
Richard Lachmann’s First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers (Verso, 2020) is a two-for-one deal. The f…