Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy

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Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy
The Dialectics of Marginalized and Global Forces in Jamaica

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Randolph B. Persaud - Author
Robert W. Cox - Foreword by

SUNY series in Global Politics

Price: $69.50
Hardcover - 304 pages

Release Date: March 2001

ISBN10: 0-7914-4919-X
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4919-6

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 304 pages

Release Date: March 2001

ISBN10: 0-7914-4920-3
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4920-2

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Summary

Argues that marginalized states and peoples are capable of initiating their own foreign policy agendas.

It is not uncommon for scholars and policy makers to assume that small and dependent states must follow the lead of great or middle powers. But is this always the case? Drawing on the increasingly influential Gramscian approach to international relations, this book shows the ways in which marginalized social forces in Jamaica were mobilized against the hegemonic practices emanating from the global political economy. Persaud emphasizes the counter-hegemonic cultural activities of these forces, as well as the attempt of the Jamaican government to form a global "trade union of the poor."

"An interesting and provocative argument that local-level counter-hegemonic movements can shape national foreign policy and ultimately challenge global hegemonic structures." -- Beverley Mullings, Syracuse University

"The theoretical sophistication of the book is impressive. This is one of the few attempts to link political and social dynamics at the local level with the unfolding of international political forces." -- Pedro A. Caban, author of Constructing a Colonial People: Puerto Rico and the United States, 1898-1932

Randolph B. Persaud is Assistant Professor in the School of International Service at American University.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Abbreviations

1. Introduction: The New Historical Materialism

Why Jamaica 1962-1980?
Historicism and the New Historical Materialism
The Organization of the Study

2. Approaches to Third World Foreign Policy

The Will to Classify
Groping for Categories
The Small/Weak State School
"Small" or "Weak" State
Power and Capability
Core Generalizations
Situation Role Analaysis
The Dependence/Compliance-Dependency Approach

3. A Social Forces Approach to Foreign Policy

Historical Structure as a Framework
Hegemony
Passive Revolution
The Concept of Forms of State
The Concept of Social Force
Counter-Hegemony and Hegemony
World Order Pressures
The Argument: A First Cut

4. Ideology, Culture, and National Interest

The National Interest versus Ideology
Hegemony, Counter-Hegemony, and World Order
Implications for Foreign Policy Analysis

5. The Making of Modern Jamaica and the Emergence of Exceptionalism

Social Forces in the Struggle Over Hegemony
Plantation Economy and Society: The Making of the Longue Duree
Postwar Transformations
The Consequences of Rapid Industrialization
The Modern Social Structure
The Hegemonic Bloc and the Ideology of Exceptionalism on the Eve of the 1970s
Exceptionalism: The Ideology of the Hegemonic Bloc

6. Counter-Hegemonic Forces

The Poor in the Making of History
The Rastafarians
Cultural Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism
A Society of Deep Cleavages

7. Facilitating Passive Revolution

The JLP's "Exceptionalist" Foreign Policy
The JLP's Version of Jamaica's Uniqueness
Multilateral Policy
A Fractured Hegemony and PNP Recuperation

8. From "Exceptionalism" to Democratic Socialism

A Requiem for Exceptionalism
The 1972 General Elections
A Democratic Socialist Foreign Policy
The Multilateral Strategy
Bilateralism

9. Promise and Defeat: Hegemony as Structual Power

The 1976 Election and the Realignment of Social Forces
The Economy: From Decline to Crisis
Bilateral Policies
The Opposition Groups

10. Onwards with Critical Theory

Counter-Hegemony in Theory and Practice
Some New Directions

Notes

References

SUNY series in Global Politics

Index

Related Subjects

International Relations
Marxism
Political Economy
Political Science

39391/39390(MR/DG/FK)

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