The Future of Global Relations Crumbling Walls, Rising Regions

by Paupp, Terrence Edward; Falk, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780230617476
• ISBN10: 0230617476
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Future of Global Relationscenters on two intertwined themes: (a) the collapse of US global hegemony and (b) the rise of a multi-centric world order of regional powers from China to Africa, from Latin America to India, from the Middle East to Russia and the European Union. The ascendancy of these regional powers means that humanity has reached a historical turning point that signals the incapacity and impracticality of empire-building, thereby bringing an end to the search for hegemony and efforts by one nation to achieve domination or primacy over all others. The future of global relations will be defined by a more integrated and mutually cooperative world order of regions in which there are multiple centers of political and economic power. These regional centers will continue to mature under the ideology of "regionalism" and through the long historical process of "regionalization."

Author Biography

Terrence Edward Paupp is Senior Research Associate at: the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Washington, D.C. and Vice President of North America for the International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
An Overview of American Hegemony	p. 13
Hegemony and Its Alternatives	p. 17
Imperialism, Empire, Global Capitalism, and American Hegemony	p. 29
Hegemonic Global Capitalism versus the Universal Claims of Human Rights Law	p. 41
Confronting Hegemony as a Form of Social Domination	p. 69
Hegemonic Purposes	p. 91
The Unmapped and Uncharted Journey beyond American Hegemony	p. 101
The Paradigm of Emancipation	p. 115
Resistance, Regionalism, and Regionalization	p. 133
Competing Models to Explain American Hegemony and World Order	p. 135
The Unbalanced Power Projections of the American Hegemon	p. 147
Questions and Answers about Resistance to American Hegemony	p. 171
The Future of World Order and the "Principle of Hegemonic State Accountability" (PHSA)	p. 193
Alternative Models to Superpower Hegemony	p. 213
Conclusion	p. 231
Notes	p. 241
Index	p. 277
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