Hegemonic Decline Present and Past

• Main Authors: Christopher Chase-Dunn, Jonathan Friedman
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2005; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Political Economy of the World-System Annuals
• Subjects: Hegemony; Hegemony - United States; Political history; Political regimes; Sociology & Social Policy; World City Network; Palatial Society; NATO Expansion; cycle; Prestige Good System; Global Indigenous Movements; society; Hegemonic Decline; world; modern; karen; Polanyi's Double Movement; Polycentric City Region; United States Primacy; Young Men; Rameses III; Modern World System; palatial; Narodnaya Volya; Early Bronze Age; Thutmose III; Semiperipheral Zone; Military Expenditures; Amenhotep III; barkey; Aegean Early Bronze Age; bronze; NATO Today; Dutch Polity; system; World System Position; Hegemonic Cycle; age; Seventeenth Century Dutch; World War III
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315634173
• ISBN: 9781594510083; 1594510091; 9781594510090; 1594510083

Although the United States is currently the world's only military and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of U.S. power are illuminated by careful study of the past. This book addresses the problems of conceptualizing and assessing hegemonic rise and decline in comparative and historical perspective. Several chapters are devoted to the study of hegemony in premodern world-systems. And several chapters scrutinize the contemporary position and trajectory of the United States in the larger world-system in comparison with the rise and decline of earlier great powers, such as the Dutch and British empires. Contributors: Kasja Ekholm, Johnny Persson, Norihisa Yamashita, Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly Silver, Karen Barkey, Jonathan Friedman, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Rebecca Giem, Andrew Jorgenson, John Rogers, Shoon Lio, Thomas Reifer, Peter Taylor, Albert Bergesen, Omar Lizardo, Thomas D. Hall.