Provides a critical engagement between contending historical materialist approaches that have played a crucial role in shaping post-positivist International Relations theory. It draws out the differences of how class struggle is understood as well as the common concern for understanding the historical specificity of capitalism and process of state formation, through a focus on the social relations of production and labour.
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Release
July 25, 2006
ISBN
1403992320
ISBN 13
9781403992321
Global Restructuring, State, Capital & Labour: Contesting Neo-Gramscian Perspectives
Provides a critical engagement between contending historical materialist approaches that have played a crucial role in shaping post-positivist International Relations theory. It draws out the differences of how class struggle is understood as well as the common concern for understanding the historical specificity of capitalism and process of state formation, through a focus on the social relations of production and labour.