Required readings (35 pages):

a) Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1996. “The Inter-State Structure of the Modern World-System.” In International Theory: Positivism and Beyond. Eds. Steve Smith, Ken Booth, and Marysia Zalewski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 87-107. 

b) Cox, Robert W. 1983. “Gramsci, Hegemony and international Relations: An Essay in Method.” Millennium 12 (2): 162-175 (Reprinted in Cox, Robert W. with Timothy J. Sinclair. 1996. Approaches to World Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 124-143)

Optional reading:

a) Gill, Stephen. 1995. “Globalisation, Market Civilisation, and Disciplinary Neoliberalism.” Millennium 24 (3): 404-418.

b) Skocpol, Theda. 1977. “Wallerstein's World Capitalist System: A Theoretical and Historical Critique.” American Journal of Sociology 82 (4): 1075-1090.