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Cave 'Cave! Hic dragones': a neo-Gramscian deconstruction and reconstruction of international regime theory
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 EconomyVolume
5Pagination
252-283ISSN
0969-2290Department/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
Oxfordshire, EnglandRepository Status
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