1. Introduction : the North/South question of uneven development -- 2. Historicising Gramsci : situating ideas in and beyond their context -- 3. State formation, passive revolution and the international system -- 4. A return to Gramsci : 'the moment of hegemony' -- 5. Hegemony and world order : neo-Gramscian perspectives and the global political economy -- 6. The global political economy of uneven development -- 7. Globalisation and resistance : the power of the powerless -- 8. Conclusions against the Prison notebooks.