%0 Journal Article
%T Power and Counter
%A Cynthia Meersohn Schmidt
%A Matthew David
%J Sociological Research Online
%@ 1360-7804
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1360780418797717
%X In this article, we explore Susan Strange¡¯s multidimensional and non-reductive international political economy (IPE) approach to structural power. Strange¡¯s key weakness is the failure to account for her knowledge structure¡¯s regulative form relative to her security, production and financial structures. We seek to develop Strange¡¯s account through the addition of Manuel Castells¡¯ account of digital network structures. Castells¡¯ morphogenic structural approach to digital network power helps to clarify the mechanisms by which today¡¯s knowledge structure achieves autonomy, internal regulation and generative capacity. This sociological completion of Strange¡¯s theory, an international socio-political economy approach as it were, better explains the capacity and limits of today¡¯s digital network knowledge structure to resist reduction to other structural interests. Strange¡¯s non-reductive structural approach to power is significant for sociology as it helps identify ¡®social order¡¯ in a global age, but an additional sociological dimension is also necessary for the fulfilment of Strange¡¯s theoretical project
%K digital networks
%K finance
%K knowledge structure
%K production
%K security
%K Susan Strange
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1360780418797717