Ilias Alami's guest appearances

Ilias Alami

Here And There with Dave Marash

Global Development Institute podcast

Poliko

Jennifer Bair

Dave Daley

Shane Harris

Radley Balko

Paul Willis

Ioan Grillo

Richard Maxwell

David Cay Johnston

Sam Quinones

Jeremy Schwartz

Evan Osnos

Leonard Bernstein

Nic Cheeseman

Jeff Proctor

Jennifer O'Brien

OwlTail

As so many of Afghanistan's brightest and best people  head for the exits, as the US and its allies remove their troops and reduce their commitments to a country under threat,  Afghan journalist Ilias Alami of Kabul Insider sees the exodus and says he gets it, but he's sticking around, even though at least a dozen of his colleagues have fled in just the last month. Hear why Alami still believes in Afghanistan and its growing audience for news.

As so many of Afghanistan's brightest and best people  head for the exits, as the US and its allies remove their troops and reduce their commitments to a country under threat,  Afghan journalist Ilias Alami of Kabul Insider sees the exodus and says he gets it, but he's sticking around, even though at least a dozen of his colleagues have fled in just the last month. Hear why Alami still believes in Afghanistan and its growing audience for news.

Here and There May 17, 2021  Ilias Alami

Adam Dixon

Nick Jepson talks to Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon about their recent talk at the Global Development Institute. The talk blurb is below:The talk contributes to the development of state capitalism as a reflexively critical project focusing on the morphology of present-day capitalism, and particularly on the changing role of the state. We bring analytical clarity to state capitalism studies by offering a rigorous definition of its object of investigation, and by demonstrating how the category state capitalism can be productively construed as a means of problematising the current aggregate expansion of the state’s role as promoter, supervisor, and owner of capital across the world economy. Noting some of the geographical shortcomings of the field, we outline an alternative research agenda – uneven and combined state capitalist development – which aims at spatialising the study of state capitalism and revitalising systemic explanations of the phenomenon. We then offer a geographic reconstruction of the current advent of state capitalism. We identify the determinate historical-geographical capitalist transformations which underpin contemporary state capitalism. Such processes include: the accelerating unfolding of the new international division of labour; technological modernization and industrial upgrading culminating in the Fourth Industrial Revolution; an unprecedented concentration and centralisation of capital; and a secular shift in the centre of gravity of the global economy from the North Atlantic to the Pacific rim. The political mediation of these processes results in new geographies of intervention, which develop in combinatorial and cumulative forms, producing further state capitalist modalities. This is a particularly potent dynamic in contemporary state capitalism, and its tendency to develop in a spiral that both shapes and is shaped by world capitalist development.Transcript available here: http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/research/transcripts/uneven-combined-state-capitalism.pdf Find out more about the Global Development Institute:  Website Blog Twitter LinkedIn  Facebook  Newsletter   Intro music Anna Banana by Eaters

Nick Jepson talks to Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon about their recent talk at the Global Development Institute. The talk blurb is below:The talk contributes to the development of state capitalism as a reflexively critical project focusing on the morphology of present-day capitalism, and particularly on the changing role of the state. We bring analytical clarity to state capitalism studies by offering a rigorous definition of its object of investigation, and by demonstrating how the category state capitalism can be productively construed as a means of problematising the current aggregate expansion of the state’s role as promoter, supervisor, and owner of capital across the world economy. Noting some of the geographical shortcomings of the field, we outline an alternative research agenda – uneven and combined state capitalist development – which aims at spatialising the study of state capitalism and revitalising systemic explanations of the phenomenon. We then offer a geographic reconstruction of the current advent of state capitalism. We identify the determinate historical-geographical capitalist transformations which underpin contemporary state capitalism. Such processes include: the accelerating unfolding of the new international division of labour; technological modernization and industrial upgrading culminating in the Fourth Industrial Revolution; an unprecedented concentration and centralisation of capital; and a secular shift in the centre of gravity of the global economy from the North Atlantic to the Pacific rim. The political mediation of these processes results in new geographies of intervention, which develop in combinatorial and cumulative forms, producing further state capitalist modalities. This is a particularly potent dynamic in contemporary state capitalism, and its tendency to develop in a spiral that both shapes and is shaped by world capitalist development.Transcript available here: <a href="http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/research/transcripts/uneven-combined-state-capitalism.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/research/transcripts/uneven-combined-state-capitalism.pdf</a> Find out more about the Global Development Institute: <ul> <li><a href="https://gdi.manchester.ac.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/GlobalDevInst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/globaldevinst/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn </a></li> <li><a href="https://facebook.com/globaldevinst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a></li> <li> <a href="https://t.co/nbCntwdJ3G" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Newsletter</a> </li> </ul> Intro music Anna Banana by Eaters

Uneven and combined (state) capitalism | Ilias Alami  & Adam Dixon

State capitalism is today a label  often applied to China, Russia or the Arab Gulf as a model threatening to displace Western liberal conceptions of insulated markets driven by fair competition and minimal state interventions. In this episode, I'm asking  Ilias Alami from Maastricht University to unpack the concept: Rejecting a Western liberal Orientalizing discourse, which locates state capitalism beyond the West, Ilias argues on the contrary that the concept can be useful for understanding a restructuring of the State in both advanced and emerging market economies. Ilias points to Marxist state theory as a rich tradition for contextualizing contemporary state capitalism as an answer to ongoing crises of capitalist accumulation.You can follow Ilias online at:Twitter: https://twitter.com/iliasalamiAcademia: https://maastrichtuniversity.academia.edu/IliasAlamiWebsite: https://sites.google.com/tbs-education.org/ilias-alami/homeBlog: https://developingeconomics.orgCheck out recent work by Ilias:Alami, I. (2020). Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets. Facing the Liquidity Tsunami. London and New York: Routledge. https://tinyurl.com/9wd4f6a8 Alami, I., &amp; Dixon, A. D. (2019). State capitalism(s) redux? Theories, tensions, controversies. Competition &amp; Change. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1024529419881949Alami, I., &amp; Dixon, A. D. (2020). The strange geographies of the “new” state capitalism. Political Geography, 82. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102237Other references recommended by Ilias:Sperber, N. (2019). State Capitalism and the State-Class Nexus. Science &amp; Society, 83(3), 381-407. doi:https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2019.83.3.381Karas, D. (2021). Financialization and State Capitalism in Hungary after the Global Financial Crisis. Competition &amp; Change. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294211003274Wright, M., Wood, G., Musacchio, A., Okhmatovskiy, I., Grosman, A., &amp; Doh, J. P. (2021). State Capitalism in International Context: Varieties and Variations. Journal of World Business, 56(2). doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101160

State capitalism is today a label  often applied to China, Russia or the Arab Gulf as a model threatening to displace Western liberal conceptions of insulated markets driven by fair competition and minimal state interventions. In this episode, I'm asking  Ilias Alami from Maastricht University to unpack the concept: Rejecting a Western liberal Orientalizing discourse, which locates state capitalism beyond the West, Ilias argues on the contrary that the concept can be useful for understanding a restructuring of the State in both advanced and emerging market economies. Ilias points to Marxist state theory as a rich tradition for contextualizing contemporary state capitalism as an answer to ongoing crises of capitalist accumulation. You can follow Ilias online at: Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/iliasalami" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/iliasalami</a> Academia: <a href="https://maastrichtuniversity.academia.edu/IliasAlami" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://maastrichtuniversity.academia.edu/IliasAlami</a> Website: <a href="https://sites.google.com/tbs-education.org/ilias-alami/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/tbs-education.org/ilias-alami/home</a> Blog: <a href="https://developingeconomics.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://developingeconomics.org</a> Check out recent work by Ilias: Alami, I. (2020). Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets. Facing the Liquidity Tsunami. London and New York: Routledge. <a href="https://tinyurl.com/9wd4f6a8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/9wd4f6a8</a> Alami, I., &amp; Dixon, A. D. (2019). State capitalism(s) redux? Theories, tensions, controversies. Competition &amp; Change. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1024529419881949" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1177/1024529419881949</a>Alami, I., &amp; Dixon, A. D. (2020). The strange geographies of the “new” state capitalism. Political Geography, 82. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102237" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102237</a> Other references recommended by Ilias: Sperber, N. (2019). State Capitalism and the State-Class Nexus. Science &amp; Society, 83(3), 381-407. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2019.83.3.381" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2019.83.3.381</a> Karas, D. (2021). Financialization and State Capitalism in Hungary after the Global Financial Crisis. Competition &amp; Change. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294211003274" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294211003274</a>Wright, M., Wood, G., Musacchio, A., Okhmatovskiy, I., Grosman, A., &amp; Doh, J. P. (2021). State Capitalism in International Context: Varieties and Variations. Journal of World Business, 56(2). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101160" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101160</a>

Episode 02. Marxist State Theory for De-Orientalizing State Capitalism with Ilias Alami