Hegemony and World Order: Reimagining Power in Global Politics

by Piotr Dutkiewicz (Editor), Tom Casier (Editor), Jan Aart Scholte (Editor)

Overview

Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises. Does hegemony – that is, legitimated rule by dominant power – have a role in ordering world politics of the twenty-first century? If so, what form does that hegemony take: does it lie with a leading state or with some other force? How does contemporary world hegemony operate: what tools does it use and what outcomes does it bring?

This volume addresses these questions by assembling perspectives from various regions across the world, including Canada, Central Asia, China, Europe, India, Russia and the USA. The contributions in this book span diverse theoretical perspectives from realism to postcolonialism, as well as multiple issue areas such as finance, the Internet, migration and warfare. By exploring the role of non-state actors, transnational networks, and norms, this collection covers various standpoints and moves beyond traditional concepts of state-based hierarches centred on material power. The result is a wealth of novel insights on today's changing dynamics of world politics.

Hegemony and World Order is critical reading for policymakers and advanced students of International Relations, Global Governance, Development, and International Political Economy.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367457242
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/24/2020
Series:	Routledge Global Cooperation Series
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Piotr Dutkiewicz is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Center for Governance and Public Management, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Tom Casier is Jean Monnet Chair and Reader in International Relations at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS), Belgium.

Jan Aart Scholte is Professor of Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at Leiden University, Netherlands and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations vii

Acknowledgements viii

List of contributors ix

Hegemony in world politics: An introduction Jan Aart Scholte Tom Cosier Piotr Dutkiewicz 1

Part 1 Hegemony as conceptual map 15

1 Crises of world hegemony and the speeding up of social history Beverly J. Silver Corey R. Payne 17

2 Hegemony: A conceptual and theoretical analysis and its application to the debate on American hegemony Brian C. Schmidt 32

3 Unravelling power and hegemony: Why shifting power relations do not equal a change of international order Tom Casier 48

4 Globalisation and the decline of universalism: New realities for hegemony Ivan Safranchuk 65

5 Rethinking hegemony as complexity Jan Aart Scholte 78

Part 2 Practices of hegemony 99

6 Hybrid war and hegemonic power Elinor Sloan 101

7 Global hegemony from, a tongue durée perspective: The dollar and the world economy Randall Germain 118

8 The role of ideas: Western liberalism and Russian left conservatism in search of international hegemony Elena Chebankova 134

9 Twilight of hegemony: The T20 and the defensive re-imagining of global order Leslie A. Pal 148

10 Shifting hegemonies in global migration politics and the rise of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Martin Geiger 164

Part 3 Hegemony in action 177

11 The US-China trade war and hegemonic competition: Background, negotiations and consequences Yong Wang 179

12 Competition in convergence: US-China hegemonic rivalry in global capitalism Xin Zhang 195

13 India in the 'Asian century': Thinking like a hegemon? Ravi Dutt Bajpai Swati Parashar 208

14 On the power of improvisation: Why is there no hegemon in Central Asia? Viktoria Akchurina 224

Conclusions: Hegemony and world order Piotr Dutkiewicz Tom Casier Jan Aart Scholte 240

Index 252

Editorial Reviews

"This is a well-organised and coherent volume that offers a wide range of theoretical, regional and policy area perspectives. It plugs a significant gap in the existing literature, and is a must read for scholars, students and citizens interested in the phenomenon of hegemony in global politics, in theory and practice." — Andreas Antoniades, Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, UK

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