Alexander Anievas

Dr. Alexander Anievas is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Specializing in historical sociology, Marxist theory, and international relations, his work focuses on the intersection of class conflict, geopolitics, and the origins of capitalism. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and previously held fellowships at the University of Oxford and Cambridge.

His research includes seminal works such as How the West Came to Rule (2015)—which challenges Eurocentric narratives of capitalist development—and Capital, the State, and War (2014), analyzing the Thirty Years’ Crisis (1914–1945). Current projects include Race to Rollback, examining the far-right’s role in U.S. Cold War geopolitics, and co-authored work on fascism’s legacies in the Cold War.

Anievas’ awards include the Sussex International Theory Prize and ISA’s International Political Sociology Best Book Award. He co-edits Historical Materialism and contributes to journals like International Studies Review and Cambridge Review of International Affairs. His teaching and research emphasize anti-Eurocentrism, critical theory, and the sociological roots of global power structures.