Abstract
The neo-Gramscian project in International Relations (IR) has offered refined, theoretically-informed analyses of the production, deployment, and effects of power on a world scale, avoiding the narrow methodological and epistemological constrictions of problem-solving, whether rational choice, neorealism, or constructivism. Inspired by Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) and his nuanced Marxian heritage and Italian intellectual background, neo-Gramscians have sought to substantially alter the terms of discourse within IR against the predilections of positivism and empiricism in favor of a critical project of resistance, counter-hegemony, and emancipation. The achievements of the neo-Gramscians are varied and extensive: shifting the topography of social theory from the national to the international; giving conceptual density to notions of power, order, change, and transformation; salvaging historicist consciousness from the fetters of neorealist orthodoxy; and reinvigorating the aims and purposes of critical theory.
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