Innovation and Transformation in International Studies

316 Pages·1997·4.125 MB·English

by  Stephen Gill, James H. Mittelman

This book explores the nature of, and conditions for, theoretical innova­
tion 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 contempo­
rary world order is in the throes of a structural transformation, which
can be partly understood in terms of emancipation: the self-actualisa­
tion 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.

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American University, Washington DC
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Essays in honour of Robert W. and Jessie Cox
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Contents
List of contributors xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xxi
Part I: Rethinking and remaking the roots of global social and
political theory
I Transformation and innovation in the study of world order 5
Stephen Gill
2 Consciousness, myth and collective action: Gramsci, Sorel and
the ethical state 25
Enrico Augelli and Craig N. Murphy
3 The critical realist tradition and the demystification of interstate
power: E. H. Carr, Hedley Bull and Robert W. Cox 39
Richard Falk
4 Ibn Khaldun and world order 56
Mustapha Kamal Pasha
Part II: Political economy: the social and ecological anatomy
of transformation
5 Ecology, political economy and the counter-movement: Karl 75
Polanyi and the second great transformation
Mitchell Bernard
6 Braudelian reflections on economic globalisation: the historian
as pioneer 90
Eric Helleiner
7 Social forces and international political economy: joining the
two IRs 105
Jeffrey Harrod
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8 Transnational class formation and state forms 115
Kees van der Pijl
Part III: Transformation, innovation and emancipation in
global political and civil society
9 Globalisation and contested common sense in the United States 138
Mark Rupert
10 The silent revolution and the weapons of the weak:
transformation and innovation from below 153
FantuCheru
11 Frantz Fanon, race and world order 170
Randolph Persaud
12 Whose crisis? Early and post-modern masculinism 185
V. Spike Peterson
Part IV: Reftections on global order in the twenty-first century
13 Civil society and democratic world order 207
Yoshikazu Sakamoto
14 Imposing global orders: a synthesised ontology for a
turbulent era 220
James N. Rosenau
15 The problem or the solution? Capitalism and the state system 236
Susan Strange
16 Rethinking innovation in International Studies: global
transformation at the turn of the millennium 248
James H. Mittelman
References 264
Index of names 288
Index ofs ubjects 2 91