Rafael Khachaturian

Peer Reviewed Publications:

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• "Bringing What State Back In? Neo-Marxism and the Origin of the Committee on States and Social Structures" (Political Research Quarterly, 2019)

• "Statist Political Science and American Marxism: A Historical Encounter" (Contemporary Political Theory, 2016) 

• "Uncertain Knowledge and Democratic Transitions: Revisiting O'Donnell and Schmitter's Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies" (Polity, 2015)

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Book Reviews 

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• Review of Artemy Magun, ed. The Future of the State (Rethinking Marxism, 2021)

• Review of Isaac Kamola, "Making the World Global: US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary" (Perspectives on Politics, 2020)

• "Theory in Revolutionary Times: The Socialist Register Since the 1960s" (New Politics, 2020)

• Review of Jason Barker, Marx Returns (Jacobin, 2018)

• Review of Warren Breckman's Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy (Logos, 2014)

• "Liberal Ideology and the Modern World-System" (Historical Materialism, 2013)

• Review of Alejandro Portes, Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry (Science & Society, 2013)

• Review of George Hartley, The Abyss of Representation: Marxism and the Postmodern Sublime (Science & Society, 2009)

 

 Public Writing:

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• "Theses on the Political Crisis" (Legal Form, 2021)

• "Trump Has Left the Building, but the Foundations are Still in Place" (The Nation, 2021)

• "The Washington Riot Was a Defeat for the Far Right, Not a Triumph" (Jacobin, 2021)

• "Key Concepts: The State" (Critical Legal Thinking/Legal Form, 2020)

• "Studying the State: The Legacy of the Committee on States and Social Structures" (Items, 2020)

• "The Struggle for Democracy in America as Unending Battle" (Jacobin, 2020)

• "Democratic Socialism is a Living Political Tradition" (Jacobin, 2020)

• "Global Capitalism, Global Pandemic, and the Struggle for Socialism" (New Politics, 2020)

• "Constitutionalism Against Revolution" (Legal Form, 2018)

• Translation: "The Loss of Nicos Poulantzas"  (Legal Form, 2017)

• "Poulantzas and the Juridical Constitution of the Subject" (Legal Form, 2017)

• "Normalizing the State of Emergency: France's Recent Anti-Terror Legislation" (Public Seminar, 2017)

• "Ditching the Deep State" (Jacobin, 2017)

• "How to Bring Down a Dictator: Reading Gene Sharp in Trump's America" (with Jeffrey C. Isaac, Dissent, 2017)

• "Trump and the Anti-Establishment Fantasy: The Balance of Power in the New Trump Administration" (Public Seminar and Jacobin, 2016)

• "On Thinking With and Against the State" (Logos, 2016) [PDF]

• "How (Not) to Kill a Philosopher: On Louis Althusser" (Dissent, 2014)

• "Social Criticism and the Academy" (Contrivers' Review, 2014)

• "Some Remarks on Isaiah Berlin" (Dissent, 2010)

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Interviews

• Ilya Matveev: "The Putin Regime is Straining Under its Own Contradictions" (Jacobin, 2022)

• "The Emancipation of All: Marxism in the Age of Identity Politics" (Verso, 2020)

• Joe Soss: "How the Criminal Justice System Preys on the Poor" (Dissent, 2020)

• Samuel Moyn: "We Can't Settle for Human Rights" (Jacobin, 2020)

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Commentaries on Eastern European politics in Dissent (2009-2012)

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• "Managing Democracy in Russia"

• "State of Disorder: Russia's Ultranationalist Problem

• "To Krakow and Back"

• "Minority Rights in Estonia, or What Multiculturalism Can Tell Us About Post-Soviet Politics"

• "The Specter of Russian Nationalism"

• "Two Heads, One State: Medvedev in Russia"

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Media Appearances

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• Dead Pundits Society: Marxism and State Theory Part I Part II

• WIUX Philosophy Hour: Discussing the Communist Manifesto

• KGNU Hemispheres: Discussing Trump and the deep state

 

My LibraryThing book catalog (I haven't read them all yet).