Research Training Group World Politics RTG 2225
Dr. James Stafford - Post-Doctoral Researcher
E-Mail: jms2533@columbia.edu
Post-Doctoral Project: Most Favoured Nation: The Making of a Global Trading System, 1750-1950
- Biography
Since 08/2022 Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Columbia University, New York, USA 10/2017 -
07/2021Post-doctoral Researcher in the Research Training Group "World Politics", Bielefeld University since 10/2015 Co-editor, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy, www.renewal.org.uk 10/2016 - 10/2017 Stipendiary Lecturer in Modern History, St. Hugh's College, Oxford University, UK 10/2012 - 10/2016 Ph.D. History, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, UK. Dissertation title: 'Political Economy and the Reform of Empire in Ireland, 1778-1845' 10/2011 - 07/2012 M.Phil. Political Thought and Intellectual History, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, UK 06/2010 - 10/2012 Parliamentary Assistant to Gregg McClymont MP, Scottish Labour, Shadow Minister for Pensions 10/2007 - 06/2010 B.A. Modern History, St. Hugh's College, Oxford University, UK - Abstract
I am conducting a major (5-year) research project focusing on the role of commercial treaties in the construction, organisation and reproduction of a world-political economy from c. 1750-1950. The aim is to produce a general history of the 'commercial treaty' as a crucial component within an emergent 'world politics'.
My particular approach combines intellectual, legal, economic and international history. I examine the classification, number, distribution and content of commercial treaties, as registers of interaction between the European balance of power, European colonial empires, and the world economy. I aim to reconstruct how a nexus of political and economic relationships between states and peoples (including relationships of subordination and hierarchy) were formalised through the institution of treaties. These, in turn, both reflected and shaped emergent conceptions of a 'world economy/market' and 'international law'.
- Publications
- Stafford, J. (2022). The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Stafford, J. (ed. with D. Russ) (2021). Competition in World Politics: Knowledge, Strategies and Institutions. Bielefeld: transcript.
- Stafford, J. (with D. Russ) (2021). 'Introduction', in: D. Russ and J. Stafford (eds.), Competition in World Politics: Knowledge, Strategies and Institutions. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 7-32.
- Stafford, J. (2021). '"Free Trade" and the Varieties of Eighteenth-Century State Competition', in: D. Russ and J. Stafford (eds.), Competition in World Politics: Knowledge, Strategies and Institutions. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 133-154.
- Stafford, J. (2021). 'International Relations: Power, Peace and the People', in: M. Mosher and A. Plassart (eds.), The Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 201-217.
- Stafford, J. (2021). 'The "Long Twentieth Century" and the Making of World Trade Law', in: M. Albert and T. Werron (eds.), What in the World? Understanding Global Social Change. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 211-226.
- Stafford, J. (2020). 'Review: The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century', in: K. Stapelbroek and A. Alimento (eds.), History of European Ideas, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 215-217.
- Stafford, J. (2019). 'Review: Quinn Slobodian', Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Political Quarterly, Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. 156-158.
- Stafford, J. (2019). 'Londra contra tutti', Limes- Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, No. 5.
- Stafford, J. (2019). Labour's Missing Brexit Strategy, Dissent (Winter 2019).
- Stafford, J. (2018). 'The Scottish Enlightenment and the British-Irish Union of 1801', in: N. Lloyd-Jones and M. Scull (eds.), Four Nations Approaches to Modern "British" History: A (Dis)United Kingdom?, (1st ed.) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Stafford, J. (with F. Sutcliffe-Braithwaite) (2018). 'Review: Michael Brown, The Irish Enlightenment', Journal of British Studies, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 368-369.
- Stafford, J. (with F. Sutcliffe-Braithwaite) (2018). 'Work, Autonomy and Community', Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 5-9.
- Stafford, J. (with F. Sutcliffe-Braithwaite) (2017). 'Ready for Government?', Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy, Vol. 25, No. 3-4, pp. 6-15.
- Stafford, J. (2016). 'The Alternative to Perpetual Peace: Britain, Ireland and the Case for Union in Friedrich Gentz's Historisches Journal, 1799-1800', Modern Intellectual History, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 63-91.
- Stafford, J. (2015). 'The Revenge of Sovereignty: The Scottish National Party, the Financial Crisis and UK Constitutional Reform', Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute Paper, No. 20.
- Stafford, J. (2011). '"Stay at Home": The Politics of Nuclear Civil Defence, 1963-83', Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 23, No.3, pp. 383-407.
- Conferences
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Stafford, J. (with S. Hecke) (2021). ‘“Unequal Treaties”: A Challenge for World Politics in the 1920s?’. Paper presented at the RTG Workshop ‘Global Challenges in World Politics: Discourses, Actors and Outcomes’, 14 December, Bielefeld University, online.
- Stafford, J. (2020). 'The Reform of Empire: Rethinking the British-Irish Union of 1801'. Seminar held in 'Modern British History', 29 October, Cambridge University, UK.
- Stafford, J. (2019). Discussant at the RTG workshop 'Envisioning the Global: Perspectives, Positions, Communities', 21-22 November, Bielefeld University.
- Stafford, J. (with A. Boyashov, M. Myatt, J. Nagel and D. Russ) (2019). Organisation of the RTG workshop 'Organising Competition & Contestation in World Politics', 24-25 October, Bielefeld University.
- Stafford, J. (2019). 'Empire, Democracy and the Invention of the "Modern" Commercial Treaty, 1815-1914'. Presentation held at the workshop 'What is a Treaty?', 28-29 March, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany.
- Stafford, J. (2019). 'The Kaiserreich, "Tariff Autonomy" and the "System of Commercial Treaties"'. Presentation held at the conference 'Sovereignty and Globalism in Modern Germany', 22 March, German Historical Institute, Washington DC, USA.
- Stafford, J. (2019). '"Free Trade" and Legal Positivism'. Presentation held at the workshop series 'Historical Capitalisms', 14 March, Chicago University, USA.
- Stafford, J. (2019). 'The Transformation of Free Trade: From Cosmopolitan Right to the Law of Treaties, c.1750-1875'. Presentation held at the Modern European History Workshop, 11 March, Columbia University, New York, USA.
- Stafford, J. (2019). 'The Enclosure of the World: The Making of Modern Trade Politics'. Presentation held at the workshop 'World Society and its Histories', 09 March, Bielefeld University.
- Stafford, J. (2018). '"The Granary of Great Britain": Food and Manpower in Ireland, 1793-1815'. Presentation held at the conference 'Environmental Transformations in Europe's Extractive Peripheries', École des hauts études en sciences sociales, 21 November, Paris, France.
- Stafford, J. (with A. Boyashov, M. Myatt, J. Nagel and D. Russ) (2018). Organisation of the RTG workshop 'Balance & Competition in World Politics', 09-10 November, Bielfeld University.
- Stafford, J. (2018). 'The Political Economy of Divided Sovereignty: Ireland and Britain in the 1780s'. Joint session of the seminars: 'In Nineteenth-Century' and 'Economic History', 23 October, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Stafford, J. (2018). Participation in the RTG workshop 'Imagining Belonging in World Politics: Concepts, Practices and Struggles', 01-02 October, Bielefeld University.
- Stafford, J. (2018). 'The French Revolution, Peasant Proprietorship and the Origins of the Irish "Land Question"'. Paper presented at the 21st Conference of Irish Historians in Britain 2018, Political Thought in Ireland, 08 September, University of Northumbria, UK.
- Stafford, J. (2018). 'Desolation and Abundance: The Transformation of Irish Poverty, 1720-1820'. Presentation held at the conference 'Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment', 04 September, Kings College London, UK.
- Stafford, J. (2018). Organisation of visiting lecture with the RTG at the Institute for World Society Studies by Georgios Varouxakis, 12 July, University of London, UK.
- Stafford, J. (2018). 'Ideology, Fundamental Institutions and Trade Regimes'. Paper presented at the international workshop 'World Society and its History', Institut für Weltgesellschaft, 10-11 June, Munich, Germany.
- Stafford, J. (2018). Organisation of visiting lecture with the RTG at the Institute for World Society Studies by Or Rosenboim, 08 June, University of London, UK.
- Stafford, J. (2018). 'Commercial Empire, Hierarchy and the Irish Kingdom in the 1780s'. Paper presented at the Second Annual Conference on International Relations and History: 'Hierarchies and Empires in International Relations', Queens College, 11 May, Cambridge, UK.
- Stafford, J. (2018). '"The mart in Europe for the trade of America": Ireland and the British World in the 1780s'. Paper presented at the international conference 'Splendid Isolation? Insularity in British History', Centre for British Studies, 05 May, Humboldt University, UK.
- Stafford, J. (with J. Pitts) (2018). Organisation of one-day book workshop with the RTG and the Bielefeld Graduate School of History and Sociology, 05 May, Bielefeld University.
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