... and its increasing inability to get other states to do what it wants. It argues that the focus on power obscures the ways in which the international system has been evolving. Hegemony can nevertheless provide insight into these changes. The chapter unpacks the concept, arguing that by identifying the ways...

...Many policymakers, journalists, and scholars insist that U.S. hegemony is essential for warding off global chaos. This book argues that hegemony is a fiction propagated to support a large defense establishment, justifying American claims to world leadership, and buttressing the self-esteem...

... historically bound up with discrimination against Jews. It also considers the effort to conceal a campaign to reestablish Christian culture hegemony under the guise of a “pluralism,” which reduces the entirety of modern scientific thought to simply one of a number of “paradigms.” Jews Catholics...

... hierarchy. The chapter then explains world polity theory and how it helps us explain the expansion of Western models of nation-statehood throughout the world. It discusses Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony and the effect of continued Anglo-European dominance in the international system on newly...

..., highlighted the moral victory of Bandung for former European colonies in Asia and Africa but also cautioned against its potential to foster new forms of hegemony. The chapter discusses how Senghor's advocacy for French as a common language faced criticism for allegedly promoting cultural uniformity over local...

... as well as for American pretensions to hegemony in world politics. Neither human rights nor democratic government abroad was served by these imperialist adventures, nor was the national security of the United States in any way enhanced. Chile China Indonesia Iraq Kagan Robert Kaplan Lawrence Kristol...

..., in an atmosphere of relentless conspiracy, by resorting to violence as a fundamental condition of governance, but also by means of substituting fantastic promises for political hegemony. Moreover, Sisi is legible not just as a Trickster, but as a global actor in an “age of the Trickster.” While one might argue...

... of global processes of mediation. The post-1500 early modern forms of globalization had three key effects. First, the moment of European hegemony in the period from circa 1750 to 1950 was correlated with the internal integration of Western Christendom and its diasporas on the basis of ideas of “civilization...

... systemic factors that previous studies have linked to these outcomes: hegemony, strategic interaction among both states and PTAs, the global business cycle, and changes in the global balance of power. It also addresses whether the number of democracies worldwide has affected PTA formation and accession...

... distrusted American hegemony, found it unreliable and self-serving, and linked the United States with the invasive process of globalization. Second, American practices and values targeted signifiers of identity more closely in France than they did those of its neighbors. Albright Madeline currencies French...

... how Henry Ford's antiliberal vision of society appealed to both the Soviet and Nazi regimes. It explores how they positioned themselves as America's antagonists in reaction to growing American hegemony and seismic shifts in the global economy during the interwar years, and shows how Detroit visitors...

... that allowed them to avoid the costs inherent to hegemony. Blyden Edward colonial Africa Young Crawford Berlin West African Conference Jackson Robert Mamdani Mahmood Ranger Terrence Turner Thomas Portuguese colonialism British colonialism Grey Earl Henry George power road density Select Committee...

... families. Celebrations often served as an extension of kingly and noble hegemony. In this regard, how other contending centers of authority—cities, noblemen, ecclesiastical authorities, and others—reacted to, shared in, or ignored these celebrations provides telling signs that none of these feasts were...

...This chapter challenges the traditional international political economy (IPE) interpretation of Bretton Woods, which views it as the marker for a new era of US hegemony. Stressing the “uneven interdependence” characteristic of the postwar Anglo-American relationship, it reveals the continuing...

...This concluding chapter explains that American-style postwar “Fordism” was only one pattern in the mottled global legacy left behind by Henry Ford. It was not the least ideological effect of American hegemony that in the 1960s modernization theory could universalize this unique historical...

...This chapter revisits the concept of hegemony, elaborating some of the most important connections among them and assessing their implications for both U.S. foreign policy and international relations theory. Drawing on empirical findings laid out in the previous chapters, this chapter contends...

..., the Enlightenment had evolved into a cultural revolution directed against the Ancien Régime, culminating in the significant transformation of Western identity. The crisis of the Ancien Régime arose in step with the Late Enlightenment, setting off a process of cultural hegemony...

... withdrawal of troops Egypt hegemony revolutionary ideals pan-Arabism Ottoman mother-state Free Officers Arab unity solidarity a low-resolution photograph of Egypt's international position around 1960 would have looked something like this: For the first time in centuries, perhaps millennia...

... D. Roosevelt studied the welfare schemes of Nazi Germany; and why the New Dealers were fascinated by cooperatives in Sweden—but ignored similar schemes in Japan. Ultimately, the book argues, the New Deal provided the institutional scaffolding for the construction of American global hegemony...