Jamie Allinson

Dr Jamie Allinson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science. His work focuses on Middle East politics, international relations, and Marxist theory. He is known for analyzing counter-revolution dynamics, particularly through his book The Age of Counter-revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East, which reinterprets the Arab Spring as a series of successful counter-revolutions. He also contributed to The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene, exploring ecological and class-based critiques of capitalism.

His research interests include historical sociology, political theory, and the Capitalocene concept. He has received the Fred Halliday Award (2022) and Jadaliyya Political Economy Book Prize (2017). Allinson is affiliated with the Salvage editorial collective, Historical Materialism, and has consulted for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Current research projects examine energy extractivism and state sovereignty's entanglement. He supervises PhD students in Middle Eastern politics and critical international relations approaches.

Notable contributions include analyzing the Egyptian counter-revolution, war economies, and class dynamics in the Arab uprisings. His work bridges Marxist theory with contemporary geopolitical challenges, emphasizing transnational power structures and revolutionary theory evolution.