Globalization and International Relations Theory
In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 353-355
ISSN: 0048-8402
In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 353-355
ISSN: 0048-8402
In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 457-458
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In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 334-336
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In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 141-143
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In this article I provide an appraisal of the neo-Gramscian approach to the study of international relations by focusing on three of its major exponents: Robert Cox, Stephen Gill and Adam Morton. I argue that neo-Gramscians have yet to adequately address some important challenges and criticisms of their method around its overly "top-down" mode of analysis, its neglect of forms of resistance and its excessively global and cosmopolitan account of neoliberal hegemony and especially resistance. I maintain that a return to the letter of Gramsci's writings on hegemony and its national-popular and democratic character would not only allow neo-Gramscians to address more effectively these weaknesses, but also strengthen their approach and align it more effectively with trends in contemporary politics.Keywords: Gramsci; International Relations; Hegemony; National-Popular.
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In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Heft 121, S. 152-153
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In: Studies presented to the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 18
In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 119-126
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In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 158-160
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'Conventional' models of how the field of international political economy should engage with ethics have proposed or assumed the normative primacy of ethical principles and often sought to add reliable empirical economic analysis so that political perspectives on economic systems, institutions and practices can result. James Brassett and Christopher Holmes (2010) have criticized such approaches for overlooking the potentially violent character of ethics as a constitu- tive discourse like any other. The present article defends the conventional method against Brassett and Holmes's critique. Focusing especially on Thomas Pogge's ethics of world poverty as Brassett and Holmes's main conventionalist target, the article argues that: (i) Brassett and Holme s's understanding of 'ethics' is seriously inadequate; (ii) Pogge's 'negative duty not to harm' principle should be maintained against Brassett and Holmes's troublingly 'political' account and facile relativist critique of Pogge's ethics; (iii) Brassett and Holmes, while conceivably critical of Pogge's global level reformist solution as superficially 'neo liberal', cannot see that their own arguably valuable proposal of radical local forms of 'resistance' can coherently complete Pogge's poverty ethics and thus confirms, rather than undermines, the conventional method. Ultimately, Brassett and Holmes's post structural attempt risks being 'violent' itself for implying a renewed international moral skepticism.
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In: Rivista di studi politici internazionali: RSPI, Band 68, Heft 4, S. 677-678
ISSN: 0035-6611
ISSN: 2057-4908
In: Carità politica 4