Biographical note

Alexander Anievas is the Anna Beigun Warburg Junior Research Fellow at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. He is the editor of Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism (Routledge, 2010) and author of the forthcoming manuscript Capital, the State and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years’ Crisis, 1914-1945 (University of Michigan Press). He is a member of the editorial collective Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. Nivi Manchanda is a PhD candidate at the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation looks at Anglo-American representations of Afghanistan. She is also the editor in chief of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Robbie Shilliam is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. He publishes widely on issues to do with race, colonialism and international relations. He is author of The Black Pacific: Anticolonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections (Bloomsbury Academic Press, Forthcoming 2014); and editor of International Relations and Non-Western Thoughts: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity (London: Routledge, 2010). He is chair of the Global Development Section of the International Studies Association (2012-2013), and on the Advisory Board of the Transnational Decolonial Institute.