Class, States and International Relations

6 Transnationalism

A critique

 

 

 

As we saw in Chapter 3, much recent neo-Gramscian scholarship focuses on the emergent transnational transformation of the global political economy that is forging greater global interconnectedness and tending towards the transcendence of the nation-state as the principal organizer of capitalist politics and economics. Recalling Morton's insistence on the plurality of neo-Gramscian perspectives, there are differences of emphasis between writers in this tradition and Morton himself has criticized perhaps the most radical version of transnationalism, that of William Robinson (Morton 2007: 140–50). Similarly, van Apeldoorn's concept of a European Union (EU)-level ‘embedded neoliberalism’, which represents a compromise ...