Hegemony file debate

This is a point that most theories of hegemony would agree with. Neo-Gramscian, constructivist, and English School accounts of hegemony all accentuate the manner in which hegemony is exercised. All agree that hegemony is less an attribute of the hegemon itself and more about the relationship between the hegemon and subordinate actors. This is again another reason why it is argued that hegemony cannot be reduced to material preponderance alone.

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Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Essential Meaning of hegemony. They discussed the national government's hegemony over their tribal community. Full Definition of hegemony. Other Words from hegemony Synonyms Did you know? Synonyms for hegemony Synonyms ascendance also ascendence , ascendancy also ascendency , dominance , domination , dominion , imperium , predominance , predominancy , preeminence , reign , sovereignty also sovranty , supremacy Visit the Thesaurus for More.

Did you know? Examples of hegemony in a Sentence … the very concept of "scientific truth" can only represent a social construction invented by scientists whether consciously or not as a device to justify their hegemony over the study of nature. Kennedy , Atlantic , March If mermaids had ceased to challenge scientific hegemony , other similarly mythological creatures rushed in to fill their places in Victorian hearts and minds.

European intellectuals have long debated the consequences of the hegemony of American popular culture around the world. First Known Use of hegemony , in the meaning defined at sense 1.

Learn More About hegemony. I have a tournament at harvard so I probably wont be able to respond for a while. But look at this in a non biased lens -- the US must accept its not the world leader. We can still solve world problems, just in a multilateral sense working with other nations. Turn on the TV today, and you could be forgiven for thinking it's Democrats and Republicans are bickering about where and how to intervene, whether to do it alone or with allies and what kind of world America should lead.

Democrats believe they can hit a reset button, and Republicans believe muscular moralism is the way to go. It's as if the first decade of the 21st century didn't happen — and almost as if history itself doesn't happen. But the distribution of power in the world has fundamentally altered over the two presidential terms of George W. Bush, both because of his policies and, more significant, despite them. Maybe the best way to understand how quickly history happens is to look just a bit ahead.

Here is counterbalancing: The web of globalization now has three spiders. What makes America unique in this seemingly value-free contest is not its liberal democratic ideals — which Europe may now represent better than America does — but rather its geography. America is isolated, while Europe and China occupy two ends of the great Eurasian landmass that is the perennial center of gravity of geopolitics. Now its very presence in Eurasia is tenuous; it has been shunned by the E.

Maintaining America's empire can only get costlier in both blood and treasure. It isn't worth it, and history promises the effort will fail. It already has. Would the world not be more stable if America could be reaccepted as its organizing principle and leader?

It's very much too late to be asking, because the answer is unfolding before our eyes. Neither China nor the E. Europe will promote its supranational integration model as a path to resolving Mideast disputes and organizing Africa, while China will push a Beijing consensus based on respect for sovereignty and mutual economic benefit. America must make itself irresistible to stay in the game.

A good hegemon and any hegemon are two different things. The US has sustained its placment as a hegemon and used that to get the UN and its related bodies to promote US interest. US hegemony only places us in a better position to deal with it.

But i cant agree that US hegemony has any logical tie nor that a lack of it will solve the problem. Pro Benign hegemons still cause counterbalancing Christopher layne "offshore balancing revisited" other states will draw the opposite conclusion: that the united states is too powerful and that its hegemony must be resisted. Even if the us foreign and defense policies remain relatively benign, other states always will fear that such benevolence might disappear in the wink of an election.

I dont know if you're citing evidence, but I actually know for a fact after doing alot of research on hegemony, that we are declining now.