Articles by Göran Therborn

• Class in the 21st Century
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR 78, November-December 2012, pp. 5-29
  Subjects: Social Theory , World Economy and Globalization
  

  From São Paulo to Beijing, a rising middle class has been hailed by liberal commentators as a bulwark for consumption and democracy in the decades ahead. Taking stock of these claims, Göran Therborn offers a magisterial overview of the global class landscape and the still prodigious numerical weight of manual workers within it.

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• NATO's Demographer
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR 56, March-April 2009, pp. 136-144
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
  

  Göran Therborn on Heinsohn, Söhne und Weltmacht. Political demography of the Mid-East youth bulge as threat to Western power.

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• Transcaucasian Triptych
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR 46, July-August 2007, pp. 69-88
  Subjects: Cities , Caucasus
  

  The dramatic trajectories of Tbilisi, Baku and Yerevan, and differing roles in the present. Göran Therborn tracks the fortunes of Georgia’s capital, seat of monarchs and Mensheviks, through alterations in its physical fabric, setting these alongside the metamorphoses of its Caucasian counterparts.

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• After Dialectics
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR 43, January-February 2007, pp. 63-114
  Subjects: New Left , Social Theory
  

  Göran Therborn offers a panoramic survey of left social theory since the fall of Communism. The vicissitudes of modernity as contested temporal narrative, and the divergent thematic paths—religion, Utopia, class, sexuality, networks, world-systems—that are emerging in the new landscape.

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• A Liberal Provoked?
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR 35, September-October 2005, pp. 93-98
  Subjects: Social Theory , Gender
  

  Is patriarchy a structure of power in the family or something wider? Is it largely a pre-capitalist phenomenon? What have been the principal forces dissolving it—commodity relations, liberal ideas, or radical political action? Where are negative rates of reproduction in advanced societies likely to lead? A sharp exchange of ideas beween Nicky Hart and Göran Therborn.

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• Capital's Twilight Zone
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR 22, July-August 2003, pp. 133-141
  Subjects: Economic Theory , Welfare State
  

  Göran Therborn on Robin Blackburn, Banking on Death. The fate of pensions in the future of capitalism, as political struggles over them escalate in North and South alike.

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• Into the 21st Century
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR 10, July-August 2001, pp. 87-110
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , World Economy and Globalization
  

  States, markets, firms, classes, movements—how are they inter-related and where are they moving in the new century? Göran Therborn offers a panorama of global politics that amounts to a powerful and original alternative to all existing readings of the state of the world.

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• Reconsidering Revolutions
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR 2, March-April 2000, pp. 148-153
  Subjects: History and Historiography , Political Theory and Strategy
  

  Göran Therborn on Noel Parker, Revolutions and History, and Fred Halliday, Revolution and World Politics. Two new contributions to the literature on revolution—where does it stand today?

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• The Limits of Social Democratic Admirableness
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/227, January-February 1998, pp. 116-124
  Subjects: History and Historiography , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• Dialectics of Modernity: On Critical Theory and the Legacy of Twentieth-Century Marxism
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/215, January-February 1996, pp. 59-81
  Subjects: History and Historiography , Philosophy , Social Theory
  

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• The Autobiography of the Twentieth Century
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/214, November-December 1995, pp. 81-90
  Subjects: History and Historiography
  

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• Reply to Mouzelis
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/200, July-August 1993, pp. 185-191
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• The Life and Times of Socialism
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/194, July-August 1992, pp. 17-32
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• The Prospects of Labour and the Transformation of Advanced Capitalism
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/145, May-June 1984, pp. 5-38
  Subjects: Social Theory
  

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• The New Questions of Subjectivity
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/143, January-February 1984, pp. 97-107
  Subjects: Social Theory
  

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• Why Some Classes Are More Successful Than Others
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/138, March-April 1983, pp. 37-55
  Subjects: Social Theory
  

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• The Travail of Latin American Democracy
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/113-114, January-April 1979, pp. 71-109
  Subjects: Latin America and the Caribbean , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/103, May-June 1977, pp. 3-41
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• The Theorists of Capitalism
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/87-88, September-December 1974, pp. 125-144
  Subjects: Economic Theory
  

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• The Working Class and the Birth of Marxism
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/79, May-June 1973, pp. 3-15
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• Jurgen Habermas: A New Eclecticism
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/67, May-June 1971, pp. 69-83
  Subjects: Philosophy , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• The Frankfurt School
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/63, September-October 1970, pp. 65-96
  Subjects: Philosophy , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• Swedish Communism--End of an Interlude
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/58, November-December 1969, pp. 37-42
  Subjects: Communist Movement , Sweden
  

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• From Petrograd to Saigon
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/48, March-April 1968, pp. 3-11
  Subjects: War and Peace , Vietnam
  

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• The Swedish Left
  • Göran Therborn

  in NLR I/34, November-December 1965, pp. 50-59
  Subjects: Communist Movement , Sweden
  

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