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21 On this general perspective, see Paul Levinson, Mind at Large: Knowing
in the Technological Age (Greenwich, Conn. JAI Press, 1988).
22 Ian Parker, 'Myth, Telecommunication and the Emerging Global Infor-
mational Order: The Political Economy of Transitions', in Comor ( ed. ),
The Global Political Economy of Communication, p. 47.
23 Susan Strange, States and Markets (London: Pinter Publishers, 1988) p.
25.
24 Ibid., p. 115.
25 Ibid., see esp. pp. 126-31.
26 Ibid., p. ll8.
27 Robert W. Cox, Production, Power, and World Order: Social Forces in the
Making of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987) p. 2.
28 See L. David Ritchie, 'Another Turn of the Information Revolution,
Relevance, Technology, and the Information Society', Communication
Research 18 (3) (June 1991) 412-27.
29 Stephen Gill, 'Globalisation, Market Civilisation, and Disciplinary Neo-
liberalism', Millennium, 24 (3) (Winter 1995) 422.
30 Theda Skocpol, 'Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in
Current Research', in Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and
Theda Skocpol (eds.), Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press, 1985) p. 9.
31 Ibid., p. 11.
32 Robert W. Cox, Production, Power, and World Order, p. 6. Cox defines
'historical structures' as the 'persistent social practices, made by collec-
tive human activity and transformed through collective human activity'
- p. 4. By the term 'state structure,' Cox means 'both the machinery of
government and enforcement (where power lies among the policy-ela-
borating and enforcement agencies ... ) and the historic bloc on which
the state rests' - p. 254.
33 Ibid., p. 6.
34 Craig N. Murphy, International Organization and Industrial Change,
Global Governance since 1840 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994) pp. 27-8.
35 Cox, Production, Power, and World Order, p. 410, fn. 10.
36 Ibid., p. 254.
37 Ibid., pp. 399--400.
38 See David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1990) esp. pp. 121-97.
39 Robert W. Cox, 'The Global Political Economy and Social Choice', in
Cox, Approaches to World Order, p. 193.
40 Ibid.
41 Among the preconditions for this fraction's success are the following: its
ability to unite various interests both through its willingness to make
compromises and provide economic and ideational leadership; its com-
patibility with other domestic and international political and economic
interests and growth strategies; and, fundamentally, its essential com-
patibility with predominant· productive capitalist activities. See Rene
Bugge Bertramsen, 'From the Capitalist State to the Political Economy',
in Bertramsen, Jens Peter Frolund Thomsen and Jacob Torfing (eds),
State, Economy and Society (London: Unwin Hyman, 1991) p. ll2.