Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 26) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521435234 ISBN 13: 9780521435239

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

Stephen Gill is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto and a former Distinguished Scholar in International Political Economy of the International Studies Association. His publications include The Global Political Economy (with David Law, 1988), American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission (Cambridge University Press, 1991), Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations (as editor, Cambridge University Press, 1993), Power, Production and Social Reproduction (with Isabella Bakker, 2003) and Power and Resistance in the New World Order (2003, and second edition 2008).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521435234
• ISBN 13: 9780521435239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Gill Stephen