Class 7 - IR Neo-Marxism Slides PDF

2024/2025 CLASS 7 – Development and international relations: Neo-Marxist approaches Lecturer : Dr. Valentina Brogna (replacing Prof. Amandine Orsini) Marxism and IR Global, non state-centric views of ir = no national interest as such but the interests of the dominating class...

2024/2025 CLASS 7 – Development and international relations: Neo-Marxist approaches Lecturer : Dr. Valentina Brogna (replacing Prof. Amandine Orsini) Marxism and IR Global, non state-centric views of ir = no national interest as such but the interests of the dominating class =/ realism Eurocentric view = European powers should show other countries how to develop Colonialism as a necessary step towards global communist revolution è final aim: end of history and global communist society - Colonised countries as proletarians of the world - Imperialist countries as capitalists of the world After WWII: Marxism vs IR 1) USSR interests = legitimise Stalin’s foreign policy 2) IR as a Western discipline within the bipolar competition 3) Marxism’s focus on economic factors =/ IR focus on peace and security  Neo-Marxist approaches a. Dependency school b. Structuralism c. World Systems theory Celso Furtado - Chile André Gunder Frank - Argentina  Egypt De-linking from world economy Argiri Emmanuel - Greece Structural imperialism The core and the periphery within core and within periphery Positive peace as the absence of structural violence c. World-System Theory LISIMBA A. F. 2020, Theoretical understanding / literature review dependency theory (extract) Homework class 8 - STUDY SESSION 7 (SLIDES, S U M M A RY O N M O O D L E , Y O U R NOTES) - READING: Cantoni R. and M.-C. BRISBOIS (2024), “En route to decarbonization: A periodisation of just transition in four carbon-intensive EU regions”, in Geoforum vol. 154, 1 - 1 4 ( e x t r a c t : p a r r. 1 , 2 , 6 , 7 a n d 8 - p p. 1 - 3 ; 8 - 11 ) - MCQ TRAINING (on Moodle)