Dr Kamran Matin

Biography

BA Development Studies (East Anglia, 2002); MSc Social Research Methods (Sussex, 2003); DPhil International Relations (Sussex, 2008)

Role

Lecturer in International Relations

Management committee member of Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT)  http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cait

Community and Business

Interview with BBC Persian TV on the 'intensification of conflict in Syria'. 20/05/2013.

Panelist in BBC Persian TV news analysis programme Safheye 2 (Page 2) on 'prospects for peace in Turkish-Kurdish conflict. 26/03/2013.

Panelist in BBC Persian TV programme Pargar (The Compass) on ‘patriotism and nationalism’. 11/03/2013.

Interview with Brussels-based Kurdish TV station Sterk on 'nationalism'. 04/02/2013.

Interview with BBC Persian TV news bulletin on US-Russian relations. 30/01/2013.

I am interested in the international dimension of social, political and intellectual development in the context of non-western experiences of modernity. Over the past few years I have been exploring this theme in relation to the Iranian Revolution through a critical application of the concept of uneven and combined development. This has generated three articles and two book-chapters. I am currently writing a book on this topic which will be published by Routledge in 2013. More recently, I have become interested in exploring the theoretical ground for a critical dialogue between Marxist approaches overhauled by the idea of uneven and combined development and postcolonialism. My 2012 EJIR article is the first step in this project. I am also interested in international theory, historical sociology, 'Third World' revolutionary ideologies/histories, Iranian modernity, and Kurdish politics.

Areas of Research Supervision
I would be interested in supervising PhD research in any of the following broad areas: Marxist international theory and historical sociology, origins and outcomes of modernisation projects (especially in the Middle East), geopolitics of (pre)modern state-formations, (trans)formation of 'political Islams', modern Iran, and the Kurdish question.

I will teach the following courses during 2012/13:

International Relations of the Modern Middle East 

Contemporary International Theory 

The Middle East in Global Order

Student Consultation

Teaching Block-2 2012/13

Matin, Kamran (2013) Recasting Iranian modernity: international relations and social change. Iranian studies . Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415612357 (In Press)

Matin, Kamran (2013) Redeeming the universal: postcolonialism and the inner life of Eurocentrism. European Journal of International Relations, 19 (2). pp. 353-377. ISSN 1354-0661

Matin, Kamran (2012) International relations in the making of political Islam: interrogating Khomeini's 'Islamic government'. Journal of International Relations and Development. pp. 1-28. ISSN 1408-6980

Matin, Kamran (2012) Democracy without capitalism: retheorizing Iran's constitutional revolution. Middle East Critique, 21 (1). pp. 37-56. ISSN 1943-6149

Matin, Kamran (2010) Decoding political Islam: uneven and combined development and Ali Shariati's political thought. In: International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity, edited by Robbie Shilliam. Routledge, pp. 108-124. ISBN 9780415577724

Matin, Kamran (2008) The Islamic republic and the world: global dimensions of the Iranian revolution. Capital and Class, 32 (3). pp. 159-161. ISSN 0309-8168

Matin, Kamran (2007) Uneven and combined development in world history: the international relations of state-formation in premodern Iran. European Journal of International Relations, 13 (3). pp. 419-447. ISSN 1354-0661

Matin, Kamran (2006) Uneven and combined development and revolution of backwardness: the Iranian constitutional revolution: 1906-1911. In: 100 Years of Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects. Pluto Press, London and Ann Arbor, Michigan, pp. 10-26. ISBN 9780745325224