Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Globalization, the State and Class Struggle: An Introduction; A.Bieler, W.Bonefeld, P.Burnham & A.D.Morton PART I: GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES A Critical Theory Route to Hegemony, World Order and Historical Change: Neo-Gramscian Perspectives in IR; A.Bieler & A.D.Morton Neo-Gramscian Hegemony and the International Order; P.Burnham Social Constitution and the Spectre of Globalization; W.Bonefeld PART II: STATE, CAPITAL AND LABOUR European Integration and Eastward Enlargement: A Historical Materialist Understanding of NeoLiberal Restructuring in Europe; A.Bieler The Politics of Economic Management in the 1990s; P.Burnham Structural Change and Neoliberalism in Mexico: 'Passive Revolution' in the Global Political Economy; A.D.Morton Human Progress and Development; W.Bonefeld PART III: GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING: CONTESTING NEO-GRAMSCIAN PERSPECTIVES Globalization, the State and Class Struggle: A 'Critical Economy' Engagement with Open Marxism; A.Bieler & A.D.Morton Social Constitution and Critical Economy; W.Bonefeld Marx, Neo-Gramscianism and Globalization; P.Burnham Class Formation, Resistance and the Transnational: Beyond Unthinking Materialism; A.Bieler & A.D.Morton Bibliography
Synopsis
This book provides a critical engagement between contending historical materialist approaches that have played a crucial role in shaping post-positivist International Relations theory. It analyzes globalization as a process of state formation and argues that its fate depends on the neo-liberal recomposition of labour relations. .