Neo-Poulantzian Perspectives in IR and the Current Crisis

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    Abstract

    This paper is about Poulantzas, historical materialism, international relations, and the current crisis. My purpose is to discuss how some Poulantzian theoretical contributions can be applied to the study of subject matters that are the focus of academic fields such as International Relations (IR), International Political Economy (IPE), International Politics, World Politics and others. I deliberately abstain from singling out any of these disciplines or fields or labels and from trying to define them precisely, because one of my arguments is that historical materialism (HM) is a research program2 that contains its own theoretical definition of the object under study. This object, with inspiration from Poulantzas’ notion of the imperialist chain and his general theory of society, I will define as the global social formation or for short, world society.
    OriginalsprogDansk
    UdgivelsesstedFrederiksberg
    UdgiverCopenhagen Business School [wp]
    Antal sider34
    ISBN (Trykt)8791690846
    StatusUdgivet - 2013

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