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Cave 'Cave! Hic dragones': a neo-Gramscian deconstruction and reconstruction of international regime theory

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posted on 2023-05-16, 15:18 authored by Frederick GaleFrederick Gale
The author reviews the theoretical history of the international regime concept and its deployment within neorealist, neoliberal and institutionalist IR conceptual frameworks. He argues that the five criticisms or ‘dragons’ levelled by Susan Strange at the concept in her 1982 article ‘Cave! Hic dragones’ simultaneously underestimated the concept’s theoretical originality and exaggerated the degree to which it committed theorists to a static, ordered and statist conception of the global political economy. The author shows how the concept, stripped of its neorealist and neoliberal heritage, can be deployed within a critical, neo-Gramscian theoretical framework to analyse meso-level structures and the role that global civil society actors are playing in contesting the normative structures (rights and rules), procedures and compliance mechanisms of existing and prospective international regimes. © 1998 Routledge.

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Publication title

Review of International Political Economy

Volume

5

Pagination

252-283

ISSN

0969-2290

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

Oxfordshire, England

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  • Restricted

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