Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy

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

"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

• Foreword Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction: The New Historical Materialism Why Jamaica 1962-1980?Historicism and the New Historical MaterialismThe Organization of the Study 2. Approaches to Third World Foreign Policy The Will to ClassifyGroping for CategoriesThe Small/Weak State School"Small" or "Weak" StatePower and CapabilityCore GeneralizationsSituation Role AnalaysisThe Dependence/Compliance-Dependency Approach 3. A Social Forces Approach to Foreign Policy Historical Structure as a FrameworkHegemonyPassive RevolutionThe Concept of Forms of StateThe Concept of Social ForceCounter-Hegemony and HegemonyWorld Order PressuresThe Argument: A First Cut 4. Ideology, Culture, and National Interest The National Interest versus IdeologyHegemony, Counter-Hegemony, and World OrderImplications for Foreign Policy Analysis 5. The Making of Modern Jamaica and the Emergence of Exceptionalism Social Forces in the Struggle Over HegemonyPlantation Economy and Society: The Making of the Longue DureePostwar TransformationsThe Consequences of Rapid IndustrializationThe Modern Social StructureThe Hegemonic Bloc and the Ideology of Exceptionalism on the Eve of the 1970sExceptionalism: The Ideology of the Hegemonic Bloc 6. Counter-Hegemonic Forces The Poor in the Making of HistoryThe RastafariansCultural Nationalism and Anti-ImperialismA Society of Deep Cleavages 7. Facilitating Passive Revolution The JLP's "Exceptionalist" Foreign PolicyThe JLP's Version of Jamaica's UniquenessMultilateral PolicyA Fractured Hegemony and PNP Recuperation 8. From "Exceptionalism" to Democratic Socialism A Requiem for ExceptionalismThe 1972 General ElectionsA Democratic Socialist Foreign PolicyThe Multilateral StrategyBilateralism 9. Promise and Defeat: Hegemony as Structual Power The 1976 Election and the Realignment of Social ForcesThe Economy: From Decline to CrisisBilateral PoliciesThe Opposition Groups 10. Onwards with Critical Theory Counter-Hegemony in Theory and PracticeSome New Directions Notes References SUNY series in Global Politics Index