Production Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History

by Robert W. Cox

Book Overview

In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and world order. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231058098
• ISBN13: 9780231058094
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A grand theory based on historical materialism

The author had experience in working as officer of ILO, which crystallized into The Anatomy of Influence (co-author : Harold Jacobson). He has restructured his epistemology as well as ontology of IRs by focusing on historical materialism, especially on the idea of Gramsci, so that it would criticised not only realism but positivism as a whole. His theory tries to grasp historical transformations of production=social forces, states and world order comprehensively.

Taking Political Economy to the next level

Robert Cox has done a brillant job of taking Political Economy to the next level. Whereas, other political theorists have concentrated on the International Political Economy. Cox focuses upon the Global and the forces which go into the making of forms of production, state and world order. Any student interested in the dynamic historical interplay of these structures is well advised to pick up a copy of this book. Although, Cox is a Historical Materialist, he is a Gramscian thus allowing for a greater theoretical openness then some operating in the same paradigm.