Marc Blecher
- James Monroe Professor of Politics and of East Asian Studies
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Marc Blecher Coauthored Book Translated to Spanish
September 20, 2023
EUDEBA (a leading Argentine academic publisher) has brought out a Spanish translation of Marc's Politics as a Science: A Prolegomenon (coauthored with Philippe Schmitter, Emeritus Professor at the European Universities Institute). Translations into Arabic and Chinese are in the works.
March Blecher Coauthors, Publishes Two Books Dealing with Class and the Communist Party
March 1, 2022
On February 25, Routledge published Professor of Politics and of East Asian Studies Marc Blecher’s two newest books: Class and the Communist Party of China, 1921-1978; and Class and the Communist Party of China, 1978-2021.
Blecher coauthored the books with colleagues from Harvard, Sciences Po, the University of Sydney, and Xi’an Jiaotong Liwupu University (in Suzhou, China). To mark the Chinese Communist Party’s 100th anniversary, the scholars put together this project of research, writing, and conferences on its century-long encounter with the question of class.
Marc Blecher Presents at Chinese Studies Association of Australia Conference
December 3, 2021
On November 30, James Monroe Professor of Politics and of East Asian Studies Marc Blecher addressed the Chinese Studies Association of Australia 17th Biennial Conference on “Changing China: Then and Now 變遷中國:過去與現在.” He presented three chapters from his two forthcoming books Class and the Communist Party of China, 1921–1978 and Class and the Communist Party of China, 1978-2021: Reform and Market Socialism.
Marc Blecher publishes chapter in "China's Political Economy in the Xi Jinping Epoch"
April 16, 2021
Marc Blecher, James Monroe Professor of Politics and of East Asian Studies, published “The Political Economy of Working Class Re-formation” in Lowell Dittmer, ed., China's Political Economy in the Xi Jinping Epoch: Global and Domestic Dimensions, World Scientific, 2021.
Marc Blecher Coauthors Book
October 5, 2020
James Monroe Professor of Politics and Professor of East Asian Studies Marc Blecher’s new book Politics as a Science: A Prolegomenon, coauthored with European University Institute Emeritus Professor Philippe Schmitter, was recently published by Routledge. It provides an overview of the core, eternal, universal issues of political science—or, as we argue it should be known, “politology.” It argues that politics is the most fundamental social activity because it involves the peaceful resolution of conflict without which all others would be impossible. The book includes chapters on politics’ (and politology’s) subject matter, foundations (concepts, agents, cleavages, motives, processes, mechanisms, temporalities, units and régimes), consequences (order, production and distribution, recognition and respect, externalities, and legitimacy), the discipline, research design, and its purpose and promise. It is available Open Access to make it affordable for students, scholars and citizens/subjects the world over. Portuguese and Spanish translations are in process, with more foreign language editions intended.
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