ABSTRACT
In response to the problems of mainstream Western approaches to international political economy (IPE), such as neo-realism and liberal interdependence theories, Robert Cox (1981, 1983) introduced the neo-Gramscian approach. It turned out to be a quite impressive success. By the 1990s, this approach had become prevalent, at least in many political economy sections of international relations departments in a number of UK universities, besides, for instance, the York University in Canada.
