Nonstate Actors, Change and Gender: A Framework for Analysis

Abstract

One of the more recent approaches to international relations and international political economy has been called variously neo-Gramscian theory, Coxian critical theory, historical materialist international relations and the ‘Italian school’ of international relations. Neo-Gramscian critical theory, as I will call it, uses tools of political analysis from Antonio Gramsci applied to past and existing world orders. Robert W. Cox (1986, 1987) and Stephen Gill (Gill and Law, 1988; Gill, 1990, 1993) have argued that neo-Gramscian critical theory offers an approach that examines the interrelationship of ideas, institutions and material capabilities at three different levels: that of production relations, the state-society complex and historically defined world orders. Neo-Gramscian critical theory offers a more useful analytical framework for this study than the other three approaches to international relations, but the development of different areas of analysis remain limited. One of the goals of this study will be to extend the analysis of neo-Gramscian critical theory in the areas of gender relations and social movements.KeywordsSocial MovementInternational RelationCritical TheoryGender RelationWorld OrderThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.