H. P. Gia Nguyen recently completed his PhD at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex. His works focus on the theory of uneven and combined development, theories of imperialism, and Japanese imperialism, and have been published in International Relations.
Backwardness, (re)understood as self-perceived backwardness, is an important concept without which Uneven and Combined Development’s explanation of historical change is incomplete.
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