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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.

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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

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"Alison Ayers has brought together a group of serious scholars to probe some of the most intriguing themes raised by the use of Antonio Gramsci´s ideas within IPE and IR theory today. It will need to become required reading for everyone who believes that Gramsci remains relevant today, but that his work also demands a critical engagement if we are to benefit from its use." - Randall Germain, Professor of Political Science, Carleton University

"Gramsci, Political Economy and International Relations Theory is a lively, engaging and thought-provoking set of essays. Ayers and her collaborators take forward the debates raised by the application of Gramsci to International Relations and thus make a valuable contribution to contemporary critical International Relations/International Political Economy scholarship. This is an indispensable text for students of critical IR and critical IPE." - Marc Williams, Professor of International Relations, University of New South Wales.

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Professor, Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University, Canada

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