Crises and Hegemonic Transitions: From Gramsci's Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy: Historical Materialism

Lorenzo Fusaro, Ph.D. in International Political Economy (King's College London, 2013), is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. He is the author of diverse works, including Revisiting Gramsci's Laboratory (Brill, forthcoming, with Antonini et al.) and 'Why China is Different: Hegemony, Revolutions and the Rise of Contender States' (in Research in Political Economy 32, August 2017).

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Introduction: Which Gramsci?

1 Gramsci vs Capital?

2 Towards the Development of a New Concept

3 Argument and Plan of the Book

1 A Dissenting View

1 Theories of Hegemony

2 Crises and Hegemonic Transitions

3 Do Crises lead to Hegemonic Transitions?

4 A Critique

Part 1 Theory

2 Hegemony

1 Readings of Gramsci

2 Hegemony at the National Level

3 Gramscian IR

4 Gramsci's IR

5 Hegemony at the International Level (first cut)

3 Crises

1 Marx's Method and Gramsci

2 Capital

3 An Integral Theory of Crises

4 From Capital to the International

5 Hegemony at the International Level (second cut)

6 World Market Crises and Hegemonic Transitions

Part 2 History

4 Tantae Molis Erat: US Hegemony during the Interwar Period

1 Sturm und Drang Hegemony

2 In Crisis

3 The Full Realisation of US Hegemony

5 Not for Real, Yet: US Hegemony Today

1 Hegemony Unravelling (1970-2007)?

2 The Great Recession

3 Fight with Cudgels

Conclusion: Crises and Hegemonic Transitions

1 The Concept

2 Hegemony

3 Crises and Hegemonic Transitions

4 US Hegemony and China's Long March Ahead

Bibliography Index