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Cave 'Cave! Hic dragones': a neo-Gramscian deconstruction and reconstruction of international regime theory
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Gale, F, Cave 'Cave! Hic dragones': a neo-Gramscian deconstruction and reconstruction of international regime theory, Review of International Political Economy, 5, (2) pp. 252-283. ISSN 0969-2290 (1998) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1080/096922998347561
Abstract
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.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Political science |
Research Field: | International relations |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
UTAS Author: | Gale, F (Professor Fred Gale) |
ID Code: | 30786 |
Year Published: | 1998 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 23 |
Deposited By: | Government |
Deposited On: | 2007-10-17 |
Last Modified: | 2007-10-17 |
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