The United States’ Residual Hegemony
The United States’ Residual Hegemony

Author: Rashad Seedeen

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-16

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1000892891

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This book investigates the hegemony of the USA by examining the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations’ responses to major global crises. Combining a Gramscian framework with the main features of complexity theory it provides a comprehensive account of the systemic crisis of the hegemonic order of the United States in security, environmental, and economic issue-areas. By examining key case studies, the author reveals that the hegemonic responses of the US were confronted by overt challenges, including emerging state and non-state actors, globally complex transnational flows, and a combative domestic political climate which undermined the United States’ role in multilateral institutions no longer fit for purpose. This book will be of interest to general readers as well as scholars and students of US foreign policy, global politics, and Gramscian theory.

Cultural Hegemony in the United States
Cultural Hegemony in the United States

Author: Lee Artz

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2000-06-23

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1452221960

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Popular usage equates hegemony with dominance–a meaning far from Antonio Gramsci′s original concept where hegemony appears as a contested culture that meets the minimum needs of the majority while serving the interests of the dominant class. This text is the first to present cultural hegemony in its original form–as a process of consent, resistance, and coercion. Hegemony is illustrated with examples from American history and contemporary culture, including practices that represent race, gender, and class in everyday life. U.S. cultural hegemony depends in part on how well media, government, and other dominant institutions popularize beliefs and organize practices that promote individualism and consumerism. Corporate dominance and market values reign only through the consent of the majority, which, for the time being - finds material, political, and cultural benefit from existing social relations. As deep social contradictions undermine brittle hegemonic relations, the subordinate majority - including blacks, women, and workers will seek a new cultural hegemony that overcomes race, gender, and class inequality.

Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order
Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order

Author: Joseph A. Camilleri

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9781781957981

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Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific is a complex and rapidly evolving phenomenon. This volume explores the relationship between globalization and regionalization, between states, markets and civil society, and between US hegemony and Asian aspirations.

Twentieth-Century Literary Theory
Twentieth-Century Literary Theory

Author: K.M. Newton

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1997-09-30

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1349259349

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A thoroughly revised edition of this successful undergraduate introduction to literary theory, this text includes core pieces by leading theorists from Russian Formalists to Postmodernist and Post-colonial critics. An ideal teaching resource, with helpful introductory notes to each chapter.

Marxism and Literature
Marxism and Literature

Author: Raymond Williams

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks

Published: 1977-11-10

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0198760612

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This classic study examines the place of literature within Marxist cultural theory, and offers an assessment of the contributions of previous thinkers to Marxist literary theory.

Nineteenth Century America in the Society of States
Nineteenth Century America in the Society of States

Author: Cornelia Navari

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1003807887

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This book examines how the United States adopted and contributed to the practices of international society—the habits and practices states use to regulate their relations—during the nineteenth century. Expert contributors consider America’s "entry" into international society and how independence forced it to enter into diplomatic relations with European states and start a permanent engagement with a society of states. Individual chapters focus on U.S. perceptions of the international order and its place within it, the U.S. position on international issues of that period, and how America’s perceptions and positions affected or were affected by the habits, practices, and institutions of international society. This volume will serve as an invaluable text for undergraduate courses focusing on international relations theory and U.S. foreign policy. It will also appeal to established scholars in international relations, diplomacy, and international history and historical sociology.

Social Theory Now
Social Theory Now

Author: Claudio E. Benzecry

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017-08-14

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 022647531X

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The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner’s seminal Social Theory Today. Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda centered around central questions of social theory. In Social Theory Now, Claudio E. Benzecry, Monika Krause, and Isaac Ariail Reed set a new course for sociologists, bringing together contributions from the most distinctive?sociological?traditions?in an ambitious survey of where social theory is today and where it might be going. The book?provides a strategic window onto social theory based on current research, examining trends in classical traditions and the cutting edge of more recent approaches. From distinctive theoretical positions, contributors address questions about?how social order is accomplished; the role of materiality, practice, and meaning; as well as the conditions for the knowledge of the social world. The theoretical traditions presented include cultural sociology, microsociologies, world-system theory and post-colonial theory, gender and feminism, actor network and network theory, systems theory, field theory, rational choice, poststructuralism, pragmatism, and the sociology of conventions. Each chapter introduces a tradition and presents an agenda for further theoretical development. Social Theory Now is an essential tool for sociologists. It will be central to the discussion and teaching of contemporary social theory?for years to come.

New Forces in the World Economy
New Forces in the World Economy

Author: Brad Roberts

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780262680899

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Comprises a collection of articles originally published in "The Washington Quarterly" between 1990 and 1996. Articles are grouped under the following themes: The Global Economy of the 1990s; The USA Competitiveness Debate; New Directions of Trade and Investment; The New Regional Dimension; The Global Power of Financial Markets; and The Governance Agenda. Covers mainly the 1990s.

Challenges to Global Security
Challenges to Global Security

Author: Hussein Solomon

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2007-10-24

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0857711199

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Ours is an age of great upheaval where change sometimes appears to be the only constant. Three of the most important forces driving such change are globalization, regionalization and democratization. This substantial work makes a concerted attempt to understand these forces, and to show how they impact on the vitally important question of global security. The volume brings together a wide range of scholars who hold diverse views, and who collectively make a very significant contribution to current discourses within international relations and contemporary geopolitics. Such is the book's breadth that it covers every region of the world, addressing in turn security problems in the USA, Latin America, South Asia, South East Asia, Europe, Russia and environs, the Middle East, and Africa. Each discourse receives substantial coverage: from economics and politics to religion, religious fundamentalism and human rights. "Challenges to Global Security" offers one of the richest comparative volumes yet to be published on the subject, and will have strong appeal to students, scholars and policymakers in the fields of international relations, ethics, and politics.

Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy
Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy

Author: Daniel Satinsky

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-26

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1000918297

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This book captures the essence of the period when Russians and Americans collaborated in creating new structures of government and new businesses in completely uncharted conditions. It presents the experiences of key American participants in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia during a time when Americans thought anything was possible in Russia. Using an analytic framework of foreground ideas (Western, liberal, and neo-liberal) and background forces (Russian cultural influences, nationalism, and lingering Soviet ideology), it examines the ideas and intentions of the people involved. First-person interviews with consultants, businesspeople, and citizen diplomats help capture the essence of this turbulent reform period through the eyes of those who experienced it and present the importance of this experience as a piece of the puzzle in understanding contemporary Russia. It will be an invaluable resource for students of international relations, Russian Studies majors, researchers, and members of the general public who are trying to understand the evolution of the current antagonism between the United States and Russia.