Bieler, Andreas
Gramsci and 'the International': Past, Present and Future
Situated within a historical materialist understanding of social transformation and deploying many insights from Antonio Gramsci, a crucial break with mainstream International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE) approaches emerged in the early 1980s in the work of Robert Cox. This provided a key inspiration for the emergence of what became known, aling with a few other names, as an identifiable 'neo-Gramscian' literature of IR/IPE by the 1990s. While our own wotk could be identified as 'neo-Gramscian' in this respect, a key limitation of this otherwise highly significant body of scholarship was the place within it of Antonio Gramsci himself. There are two key reasons for our dissatisfaction: (1) the way in which many of Gramsci's key insight on the international were downplayed; and (2) the manner of the critique of the neo-Gramscian literature which tended to engage not with Gramsci but those claiming to be inspired by him. As such, the case for Gramsci's relevance still requires more work, not least because placing Gramsci at the center of our approach entails a research agenda which is distinctive compared to earlier frameworks.
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Bieler, Andreas |
| Subjects |
Neogramscismo
Economica, Teoria
Neogramscism
Economic theory |
