1st Edition

Beyond Globalization Capitalism, Territoriality and the International Relations of Modernity

By Hannes Lacher Copyright 2007
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Hannes Lacher presents a new critical social theory of international relations that integrates sociology, history and political geography to understand the formation and development of modern international relations. Far from implying a return to state-centrist Realism, this essential new volume leads us towards a critical social theory of international relations that questions the... Read more

Introduction: from the International to the Global?  1. The Limits of Society: State-centrism and the International Relations of Modernity  2. Theorists of the Superstructure: From Gramsci to Althusser and Beyond  3. Historical Structures of Capitalism: Neo-Gramscian IPE  4. Beyond Base/ Superstructure: Renewing Historical Materialism  5. Third time right? 'Open Marxism' and the International System  6. Towards Modernity? Absolutism, Capitalism, and State Formation in Post-Feudal Europe  7. The International System of Ancien Regime  8. Incongruent Spaces: National States and Global Accumulation  9. Beyond the 'Territorial Trap': Towards a Historical Geography of Capitalist Modernity  10. Conclusions and Perspectives: The Demise of the Territorial State?

 

Biography

Hannes Lacher is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus and currently a Visiting Professor at York University, Canada.