This paper is about Poulantzas, historical materialism, international relations, and the current
crisis. My purpose is to discuss how some Poulantzian theoretical contributions can be applied
to the study of subject matters that are the focus of academic fields such as International
Relations (IR), International Political Economy (IPE), International Politics, World Politics
and others. I deliberately abstain from singling out any of these disciplines or fields or labels
and from trying to define them precisely, because one of my arguments is that historical materialism
(HM) is a research program2 that contains its own theoretical definition of the object
under study. This object, with inspiration from Poulantzas’ notion of the imperialist chain and
his general theory of society, I will define as the global social formation or for short, world
society
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