The World Is Returning To Pluralism After American Hegemony

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
PETER SLOTERDIJK
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
American Hegemony

A Changing Matrix, 1942–1963

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-264
Author(s):  
Sasha D. Pack
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
The South ◽  
Franco Regime ◽  
Northwest Africa ◽  
The World ◽  
Border Conflicts ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
Authoritarian Government ◽  
Southern Border

This chapter analyzes the regional consequences of the advent of American hegemony over the course of two decades. The smuggling and banditry that long characterized the region continued, ultimately undermining the Franco regime’s efforts to manipulate its currency and build an autarkic economy. Spanish attention to the southern border did not flag, however, as the Franco regime believed a strong authoritarian government in Morocco was necessary to prevent the spread of communism into northwest Africa and eventually Europe. This consideration, rather than the maintenance of a formal colonial position, guided Spanish action in Morocco from the middle of the World War II and throughout the decolonization era. Despite border conflicts further to the south, authoritarian Spain worked to support a strong independent Moroccan monarchy under Muhammad V and Hassan II, even when a revived Riffian movement presented Spain with the opportunity to restore a neocolonial foothold there.

scholarly journals The US hegemony, East Asia and global governance

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Min-Hua Chiang
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
World Order ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
Us Hegemony ◽  
Rising China ◽  
Zero Sum

This article studies the US hegemony with particular focus on its dominant role in East Asia and compares conventional thoughts with different views provided by the two books reviewed. Reich and Lebow considered that American hegemony has started to erode when other nations regained their economic strength and political stability during the postwar decades. Acharya’s main argument is focusing on the decline of the American world order, rather than the decline of the US. Authors from the two books jumped out from the conventional zero-sum game between the rising China and the declining US power and consider other regional players in constructing the world order. However, this article argued that if China was not able to challenge the US power presence, there is no reason to assume the IS power decline. The establishment of the institutionalized network with involvement of several countries would only to strengthen the US dominance, rather than to weaken it.

The United States and Regional Security Orders in the Middle East, East Asia, and Europe

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Overhaus
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
East Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Trump Administration

The USA is still the only power with the capability to have a major impact—for better or for worse—on the security orders in all major geographical regions of the world, most notably the Near/Middle East, East Asia, and Europe. A review of the major dynamics in regional orders shows that seven decades of American hegemony have always been short of the liberal ideal-type expectations—well before Donald Trump entered the scene. However, the Trump administration sees the international and regional security orders primarily as arenas for power competition in which economic and military might are the most relevant currencies. While the erosion of regional security orders is not primarily the result of the deeds and omissions in Washington, the missing liberal hegemon will make it much harder to reverse the trend and to rebuild these orders from within and from the outside.

scholarly journals Making Sense of the World We Live In Editorial Practices and Picturing Science in LIFE Magazine: 1936–1955

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. A. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Life Magazine ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
The World ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
Editorial Practices

Making Sense of the World We Live In examines how editorial practices communicated different images of science to the readers of LIFE magazine between 1936 and 1955. Selected essays published between 1936–1955 in various sections of LIFE, as well as the thirteen issues series, “The World We Live In” published between 1952–1954 serve as the primary sources for this thesis. An introduction, literature survey, and methodology section establish the historical context of science communication and LIFE magazine. An appendix and list of illustrations provide quantitative data and selected images used in this thesis. Three analysis chapters discuss how editorial practices including layout, colour, the role of the photographer, and section placement in LIFE produced different stories of science for specific audiences. These chapters also consider how the story of science was integrated by editors into larger political narratives of American hegemony published in the magazine.

Endangered Vampires of the Anthropocene: Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive and the Ecology of Romance

Genre ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-228
Author(s):  
Joanna Mansbridge
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
First Century ◽  
Environmental Toxins ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
The World ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Ways Of Life

Among the recent spate of independent vampire films, Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive uniquely depicts vampires whose immortality is under threat in a world tainted by environmental toxins. Facing their mortality as we humans face our own extinction, Adam and Eve are vampires of the Anthropocene. Only Lovers was often dismissed by critics as easy on substantial ideas and heavy on seductive sheen, and yet the film deftly deploys the vampire trope to explore enduring attachments, as well as endangered and endangering ways of life. Set in Detroit and Tangier, Jarmusch’s film tracks the roaming romance of his vampires, Adam and Eve, who are both cultured cosmopolitans and endangered species seeking refuge in an increasingly uninhabitable world. Adam and Eve keep alive forms of intimacy and aesthetic appreciation on the verge of extinction even as they adapt to ecological crises by adopting twenty-first-century modes of global consumption. Jarmusch strikes a careful balance between his characters’ complicity with and critique of the world they feed on. In the end the film is about survival and a white Euro-American hegemony that refuses to die.

Changes in the World Power: The United States within the New Balance of Power

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Duarte
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
World Power ◽  
The World ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Relative Decline

This article aims to analyse the behaviour of the United States as a world power. The working hypothesis is that the only superpower has become, nowadays, impotent, affected by a relative decline. However, this should be understood as something natural, since it has never happened that any society would permanently remain ahead of the others. We assume here that the use of the qualitative method, through the hermeneutic analysis is, certainly, the basic methodology used for this investigation. We will try to conclude that notwithstanding their relative decline, the USA will tend to remain, in the short and medium term, the only world superpower. It is recommended that further investigation must assign a special attention to China’s emergence and its consequences on the balance of world power, in particular with regard to the durability of American hegemony.

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