Global Restructuring, State, Capital & Labour Contesting Neo-Gramscian Perspectives

by Bieler, Andreas; Bonefeld, Werner; Burnham, Peter; Morton, Adam David

• ISBN13: 9781403992321
• ISBN10: 1403992320
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Adam David Morton is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK Peter Burnham teaches in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Werner Bonefeld teaches in the Department of Politics at the University of York, UK, and is an associate fellow at the Centre for Comparative Labour Studies, University of Warwick, UK. Andreas Bieler is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK.

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