INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dialectic, Social Forces, Proletariat

• School: University of Florida
• Department: International Relations
• Course: INR 2001
• Professor: Laura E Sjoberg

Document Summary

Method: no separation between domestic and international politics social self- production rules, relational and process-oriented view of historical materialism, therefore, a dialectic view of history. Critique of capitalism: mix of freedom and unfreedom, disabling, exploitative, imperial, hegemonic. Marxism and realisms: the four ways neomarxism corrects neorealism. Dialectic (the potential for alternative forms of development arising from the confrontation of opposed social forces in any concrete historical situation) Adds a vertical dimension of power to the historical dimension of rivalry among the most powerful states the dominance and subordination of the metropole over hinterland, centre over periphery. Enlarges the realist perspective through its concern with the relationship between the state and the civil society. Historical materialism focuses upon the production process as a critical element in the explanation of the particular historical form taken by the state/society complex. Wallerstein and world-systems theory: immaneul wallerstein. One of the most in uential modern marxists in international relations theory.