CIAO DATE: 11/03

The State of International Relations Research and Perspectives in Germany

Gunther Hellmann, editor
August 2003

International Political Economy from a Critical Perspective by Christoph Scherrer

Abstract

The article discusses new theoretical developments within the tradition of Marxist political economy. Recent research inspired by the French regulation school and Neo-Gramscian approaches to international relations moves beyond traditional concepts of structural determination by taking contingency seriously. The global governance debate illustrates the remaining difference between mainstream constructivist approaches on the one hand and these post-Marxist plus some gender theoretical approaches on the other.