(Re)introducing world hegemony into the 'global organic crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3696649 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Pa, Jonathan Pass (0000-0002-6737-0976, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 323-343 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iiad230 |
| OpenAlex | W4390663442 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Neo-Gramscians have drawn on the concept of interregnum and connected terms to shed light on the 'global organic crisis' they claim we have been living through since 2008. I examine their ideas, highlighting the important contributions they have made in this terrain. In doing so, however, certain oversights are detected in the neo-Gramscian theoretical framework, leaving them unable to explain fully the dynamics of the contemporary international system or, more pointedly, structural change itself. Ultimately this stems from ontological shallowness: a tendency to reduce reality to intersubjectivity and conscious class agency. Rooted in critical realism, and drawing on Gramsci and Gramsci-inspired scholars such as world-systems analyst Giovanni Arrighi, this article aims to offer a more convincing account of the present conjuncture. In contrast to the neo-Gramscian transnational perspective, I recognize the continuing relevance of 'world hegemony', arguing that the global organic crisis is actually an expression of a systemic crisis afflicting American world hegemony and the neoliberal accumulation regime it helps underwrite. Hegemony has never been solely based on consensus-coercion and militarism are integral to it. Nonetheless, this article questions the sustainability of a world hegemon (the United States) increasingly reliant on political and military means to overcome 'incurable structural conditions' in a changing global scenario
Agency (philosophy) · Epistemology · Hegemony · International relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realism · Social science · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci
| Citations per year | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |