Gopal Balakrishnan is associate professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz

University of California, Santa Cruz

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, working on political thought, intellectual history

Intellectual history

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, and critical theory

Critical theory

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. Balakrishnan studied European intellectual history and historical sociology

Historical sociology

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 at UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles

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 during the 1990s with Perry Anderson

Perry Anderson

Perry Anderson is a British Leftist intellectual, historian, and political essayist. He is often identified with the post-1956 Western Marxism of the New Left in Europe. He is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and an editor of the New Left Review. He...

, Robert Brenner

Robert Brenner

Robert P. Brenner is a professor of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, editor of the socialist journal Against the Current, and editorial committee member of New Left Review...

, Rogers Brubaker

Rogers Brubaker

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, and Michael Mann

Michael Mann (sociologist)

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. Prior to moving to Santa Cruz, he was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review

New Left Review

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Selected publications

• Mapping the Nation (coedited with Benedict Anderson
  Benedict Anderson
  Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson is Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University, and is best known for his celebrated book Imagined Communities, first published in 1983...
  
  ), Verso, 1996.
• The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, Verso, 2000.
• Debating Empire (editor), Verso, 2003.
• Antagonistics: Capitalism and Power in an Age of War, Verso, 2009.
• 'Speculations on the Stationary State', New Left Review 59, September-October 2009
• Review of Bobbitt’s The Shield of Achilles, New Left Review
  New Left Review
  New Left Review is a 160-page journal, published every two months from London, devoted to world politics, economy and culture. Often compared to the French-language Les Temps modernes, it is associated with Verso Books , and regularly features the essays of authorities on contemporary social...
  
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• Review of Hardt and Negri's Empire, New Left Review
  New Left Review
  New Left Review is a 160-page journal, published every two months from London, devoted to world politics, economy and culture. Often compared to the French-language Les Temps modernes, it is associated with Verso Books , and regularly features the essays of authorities on contemporary social...
  
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External links

• Review of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt