Synopses & Reviews
Provides a critical engagement between contending historical materialist approaches that have played a crucial role in shaping post-positivist International Relations theory. It draws out the differences of how class struggle is understood as well as the common concern for understanding the historical specificity of capitalism and process of state formation, through a focus on the social relations of production and labour.
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. .
Table of Contents
Introduction: Globalisation, the State and Class Struggle Contested--
A.Bieler,
W.Bonefeld,
P.Burnham &
A.D.Morton * PART I: THEORY * A Critical Theory Route to Hegemony, World Order and Historical Change: Neo Gramscian Perpsectives in IR--
A.Bieler &
A.D.Morton * Neo-Gramscian Hegemony and the International Order--
P.Burnham * Social Constitution and the Spectre of Globalisation--
W.Bonefeld * Globalisation, the State and Class Struggle: A 'Critical Economy' Engagement with Open Marxism--
A.Bieler &
A.D.Morton * PART II: HISTORY: FROM THE EUROPEAN TO THE GLOBAL * Human Progress and Development--
W.Bonefeld * European Integration and Eastward Enlargement: A Historical Materialist Understanding of Neo-Liberal Restructuring in Europe--
A.Bieler * The Politics of Economic Management in the 1990s--
P.Burnham * Structural Change and Neo-liberalism in Mexico: 'Passive Revolution' in the Global Political Economy--
A.D.Morton * PART III: CONCLUSIONS * 'Critical Economy' and Social Constitution--
W.Bonefeld * Marx, IPE and Globalisation--
P.Burnham * Unthinking Materialism?--
A.Bieler &
A.D.Morton