PERIPHERAL INSURGENCE AND THE CRITICAL THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Abstract

This article dialogues between the works of Garcia Linera, a Marxist thinker and Bolivian politician, and Robert Cox, one of the founders of the critical theory of international relations. Both authors showed an anti-systemic perspective as common normative element, focused on thinking the potential for transformation from an (economically) egalitarian and plural (pertaining to the different cultural forms of social organization of life) perspective. This a comparative study of the constituent parts of what we can call order (status quo), and the concrete elements of its transformation in this tense (dialectical) relation between local and universal, between domestic and external, referred to in the works of the respective authors, and as such this paper talks about economy and power, society and state, resistance and transformation, order and revolution. It deals with the potentialities and limits of the peripheral contestation of international order.

Keywords:
Critical International Relations Theory; Uprising; Dependence and Periphery