This book seeks to provide the most comprehensive and sustained engagement and critique of neo-Gramscian analyses available in the literature. In examining neo-Gramscian analyses in IR/IPE, the book engages with two fundamental concerns in international relations: (i) The question of historicity and (ii) The analysis of radical transformation.

This book uses a multi-disciplinary approach to provide the most comprehensive and sustained engagement and critique of neo-Gramscian analyses available

Introduction; A.J.Ayers PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS Marx's Politics, Gramsci's Methods: A Recipe for Neo-Gramscian Confusion; J.Saurin History, Structure and World Orders: The (Cross-) Purposes of Neo-Gramscian Theory; H.Lacher On the Limits of Neo-Gramscian International Relations: A Scientific Realist Critique of Hegemony; J.Joseph The State in Neoliberal Globalization: Reconsidering the Debate between Neo-Gramscian and Open Marxist Approaches; P.Bedirhanoglu Production, Class and Power in the Neoliberal Transition: A Critique of Coxian Eclecticism; A.Saad Filho  & A.J.Ayers PART II: TOWARDS A COUNTER-HEGEMONIC RESEARCH AGENDA Uncivil Society: Interrogations at the Margins of Neo-Gramscian Theory; S.N.Grovogui  & L.Leonard Return to the Source: Gramsci, Culture and International Relations; M.Kamal Pasha Gender in the Theory and Practice of International Political Economy: The Promise and Problems of Neo-Gramscian Approaches; J.Steans  & D.Tepe Jacobinism: The Ghost in the Gramscian Machine of Counter-Hegemony; R.Shilliam Beyond les bourgeois conquérants ? Counter-Hegemony in Neo-Gramscian Analysis; A.J.Ayers  & J.Saurin 'Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories': Possibilities and Contradictions of Emancipatory Struggles in the Current Neo-Colonial Condition; B.Gruffydd Jones