Innovation and Transformation in International Studies

by Edited by Stephen Gill , James H. Mittelman

• ISBN13: 9780521599030
• ISBN10: 0521599032
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book explores the nature of, and conditions for, theoretical innovation in international studies. Highlighting classic and new research problems, this collection of critically minded, original essays pushes international relations scholarship in uncharted directions. Bridging social theory and international relations theory, it searches for sources of intellectual innovation in the everyday lives of ordinary people. The seventeen contributors are drawn from four continents and include such leading scholars as Richard Falk, James Rosenau, Yoshikazu Sakamoto, and Susan Strange. Although a diverse group, they find the contemporary world order is in the throes of a structural transformation, which can be partly understood in terms of emancipation: the self-actualisation of human potential and community that looks beyond the current era in which neo-liberal globalisation is dominant, to a more democratic and just world order.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	xi	(4)
Preface	xv	(6)
Acknowledgements	xxi
Part I: Rethinking and remaking the roots of global social and political theory	5	(70)
1 Transformation and innovation in the study of world order	5	(20)
Stephen Gill
2 Consciousness, myth and collective action: Gramsci, Sorel and the ethical state	25	(14)
Enrico Augelli
Craig N. Murphy
3 The critical realist tradition and the demystification of interstate power: E. H. Carr, Hedley Bull and Robert W. Cox	39	(17)
Richard Falk
4 Ibn Khaldun and world order	56	(19)
Mustapha Kamal Pasha
Part II: Political economy: the social and ecological anatomy of transformation	75	(63)
5 Ecology, political economy and the counter-movement: Karl Polanyi and the second great transformation	75	(15)
Mitchell Bernard
6 Braudelian reflections on economic globalisation: the historian as pioneer	90	(15)
Eric Helleiner
7 Social forces and international political economy: joining the two IRs	105	(10)
Jeffrey Harrod
8 Transnational class formation and state forms	115	(23)
Kees van der Pijl
Part III: Transformation, innovation and emancipation in global political and civil society	138	(69)
9 Globalisation and contested common sense in the United States	138	(15)
Mark Rupert
10 The silent revolution and the weapons of the weak: transformation and innovation from below	153	(17)
Fantu Cheru
11 Frantz Fanon, race and world order	170	(15)
Randolph Persaud
12 Whose crisis? Early and post-modern masculinism	185	(22)
V. Spike Peterson
Part IV: Reflections on global order in the twenty-first century	207	(57)
13 Civil society and democratic world order	207	(13)
Yoshikazu Sakamoto
14 Imposing global orders: a synthesised ontology for a turbulent era	220	(16)
James N. Rosenau
15 The problem or the solution? Capitalism and the state system	236	(12)
Susan Strange
16 Rethinking innovation in International Studies: global transformation at the turn of the millennium	248	(16)
James H. Mittelman
References	264	(24)
Index of names	288	(3)
Index of subjects	291