Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations [Paperback]

Relates the writings of Antonio Gramsci and others to the contemporary debates in international relations.Relating the writings of Antonio Gramsci and others to the contemporary reconstruction of historical materialist theories of international relations, the contributors argue that the emerging world order is undergoing a triple crisis involving economic, political and socio-cultural change.Relating the writings of Antonio Gramsci and others to the contemporary reconstruction of historical materialist theories of international relations, the contributors argue that the emerging world order is undergoing a triple crisis involving economic, political and socio-cultural change.The essays collected here relate the writings of Antonio Gramsci and others to the contemporary reconstruction of historical materialist theories of international relations. The contributors analyze the contradiction between globalizing and territorially based social and political forces in the context of past, present, and future world orders, and view the emerging world order as undergoing a structural transformation, a triple crisis involving economic, political and socio-cultural change. The prevailing trend of the 1980s and early 1990s toward the marketization and commodification of social relations leads the contributors to argue that socialism needs to be redefined away from the totalizing visions associated with Marxism-Leninism, toward the idea of the self defense of society and social choice to counter the disintegrating and atomizing effects of globalizing and unplanned market forces.Preface Stephen Gill; Part I. Philosophical and Theoretical Reflections: 1. Epistemology, ontology and the 'Italian School' Stephen Gill; 2. Gramsci, hegemony and international relations: an essay in method Robert Cox; 3. Alienation, capitalism and the inter-state system: toward a Marxian/Gramscian critique Mark Rupert; 4. Global hegemony and the structural power of capital Stephen Gill and Dalói