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Common-sense Constructivism and Hegemony in World Politics

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The IR literature on hegemony rarely combines attention to material power and ideas. Cox's neo-Gramscian work is a rare exception, but it too narrowly construes Gramsci's conceptualization of common sense, reducing it to elite views on political economy. But Gramsci argued that hegemony had to reckon with mass quotidian common sense. If political elites do not take into account the taken-for-granted world of the masses, elite ideological projects would likely founder against daily practices of resistance. In this article, I show how mass common sense can be an obstacle to an elite hegemonic project aimed at moving a great power into the core of the world capitalist economy. In contemporary Russia, a ruling elite with a neoliberal project is being thwarted daily by a mass common sense that has little affinity with democratic market capitalism. Scholarly work on future Chinese, Brazilian, or Indian participation in constructing a new hegemonic order would do well to pay attention to the mass common senses prevailing in those societies

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  • Hopf, Ted, 2013. "Common-sense Constructivism and Hegemony in World Politics," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 67(2), pages 317-354, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:intorg:v:67:y:2013:i:02:p:317-354_00
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    2. Senem Aydın‐Düzgit & Gergana Noutcheva, 2022. "External Contestations of Europe: Russia and Turkey as Normative Challengers?," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(6), pages 1815-1831, November.
    3. Diyun Zhang, 2024. "From Kashmir to East Pakistan: How Hegemony Absence Redefined South Asian Warfare," RAIS Conference Proceedings 2022-2024 0366, Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.

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