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Gramsci and global politics : towards a post-hegemonic research agenda ; Epistemology, ontology, and the 'Italian school' / Stephen Gill -- Gramsci, hegemony and international relations : an essay in method / Robert W. Cox -- Alienation, capitalism and the inter-state system : toward a Marxian/Gramscian critique / Mark Rupert -- Global hegemony and the structural power of capital / Stephen Gill and David Law -- Gramsci and international relations : a general perspective with examples from recent US policy toward the Third World / Craig N. Murphy -- Three hegemonies of historical capitalism / Giovanni Arrighi -- Hegemonic transition in East Asia : a historical perspective / Barry Gills -- Internationalisation and democratisation : southern Europe, Latin America and the world economic crisis / Otto Holman -- Soviet socialism and passive revolution / Kees van der Pijl -- Structural issues of global governance : implications for Europe / Robert W. Cox.

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 analyse the contradiction between globalising 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 marketisation and commodification of social relations leads the contributors to argue that socialism needs to be redefined away from the totalising visions associated with Marxism-Leninism, towards the idea of the self-defence of society and social choice to counter the disintegrating and atomising effects of globalising and unplanned market forces.

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