Innovation and transformation in international studies / edited by Stephen Gill and James H. Mittelman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gill, Stephen, 1950-

Mittelman, James H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

International economic relations.

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

Physical Description:

xxii, 294 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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.

Contents:

Part I Rethinking and remaking the roots of global social and political theory

1 Transformation and innovation in the study of world order / Stephen Gill 5

2 Consciousness, myth and collective action: Gramsci, Sorel and the ethical state / Enrico Augelli, Craig N. Murphy 25

3 The critical realist tradition and the demystification of interstate power: E. H. Carr, Hedley Bull and Robert W. Cox / Richard Falk 39

4 Ibn Khaldun and world order / Mustapha Kamal Pasha 56

Part II Political economy: the social and ecological anatomy of transformation

5 Ecology, political economy and the counter-movement: Karl Polanyi and the second great transformation / Mitchell Bernard 75

6 Braudelian reflections on economic globalisation: the historian as pioneer / Eric Helleiner 90

7 Social forces and international political economy: joining the two IRs / Jeffrey Harrod 105

8 Transnational class formation and state forms / Kees van der Pijl 115

Part III Transformation, innovation and emancipation in global political and civil society

9 Globalisation and contested common sense in the United States / Mark Rupert 138

10 The silent revolution and the weapons of the weak: transformation and innovation from below / Fantu Cheru 153

11 Frantz Fanon, race and world order / Randolph Persaud 170

12 Whose crisis? Early and post-modern masculinism / V. Spike Peterson 185

Part IV Reflections on global order in the twenty-first century

13 Civil society and democratic world order / Yoshikazu Sakamoto 207

14 Imposing global orders: a synthesised ontology for a turbulent era / James N. Rosenau 220

15 The problem or the solution? Capitalism and the state system / Susan Strange 236

16 Rethinking innovation in International Studies: global transformation at the turn of the millennium / James H. Mittelman 248.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-287) and indexes.

ISBN:

0521591058

0521599032

OCLC:

35784640