Hegemonic Decline: Present and Past

by Friedman,Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9781594510083
• ISBN10: 1594510083
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-07-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Introduction: Hegemonic Declines-Present and Past	p. 1
On the Way to the Modern World-System
Escaping a Closed Universe: World-System Crisis, Regional Dynamics, and the Rise of Aegean Palatial Society	p. 7
Structure, Dynamics, and the Final Collapse of Bronze Age Civilizations in the Second Millennium B.C.	p. 51
Plus Ca Change? On Not Learning from History	p. 89
Comparing Modern Hegemonic Declines
Dutch Hegemony and Contemporary Globalization	p. 117
A Perspective on Ottoman Decline	p. 135
Polanyi's "Double Movement": The Belles Epoques of British and U.S. Hegemony Compared	p. 153
Globalization, Democratization, and Global Elite Formation in Hegemonic Cycles: A Geopolitical Economy	p. 183
Hegemonic Decline and Resistance
Indigenous Peoples and Hegemonic Change: Threats to Sovereignty or Opportunities for Resistance?	p. 205
Terrorism and Hegemonic Decline	p. 227
Index	p. 241
About the Contributors	p. 253
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