Leon Trotsky and the Prohibition Against Secret Treaties
In: Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 331
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In: Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 331
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 41, Issue 1, p. 272-273
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Issue 40, p. 141
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: Global social challenges journal, Volume 2, Issue 2, p. 105-126
ISSN: 2752-3349
In this article we identify the ways in which Leon Trotsky's ideas constitute a powerful resource to understand the contemporary crisis of international relations and its historical roots in the 20th century. Trotsky's concept of uneven and combined development has already been highlighted as a signal contribution by an established scholarship in and around the discipline of International Relations. While this is a welcome development, we contend that it has come at a significant cost, detaching Trotsky's theoretical insights from his revolutionary politics. We employ a different mode of engagement with Trotsky's ideas, focusing on the theory of Permanent Revolution as an expression of an original analysis of the dialectic between the national and the international. Far from being a theoretically detachable and politically erroneous appendage to the more fundamental and applicable concept of uneven and combined development, we argue that Permanent Revolution constitutes its necessary culmination, as well as Trotsky's most significant contribution to classical Marxism. We then elucidate how, writing in the first half of the 20th century and applying his theory of Permanent Revolution, Trotsky was able to diagnose certain essential lines of political development – the rise and ongoing breakdown of American hegemony, the political degeneration and collapse of the Soviet Union, and the emergence and failure of the postcolonial independent nation states – tracing the long and crisis-ridden trajectory of international relations from the second half of the 20th century down to today.
In: Critique: journal of socialist theory, Volume 28, Issue 1, p. 161-182
ISSN: 1748-8605
In: Critique: journal of socialist theory, Volume 20, Issue 1, p. 151-163
ISSN: 1748-8605
In: Cass series on politics and military affairs in the twentieth century
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
In: Journal of labor and society, Volume 22, Issue 4, p. 749-768
ISSN: 2471-4607
In: Cass series on politics and military affairs in the twentieth century [1]
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Volume 90, Issue 3, p. 561-563
ISSN: 2222-4327