For years, the cultural dominance of the United States has remained intact on a global scale. The modern superpower has brought forward a huge influence on the world through its economic prowess, ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union began nearly two decades of American unipolarity. During that time, U.S. leadership pursued a strategy of what international relations scholars call liberal hegemony.

John J. Mearsheimer, the prominent exponent of foreign policy realism, is no stranger to controversy. The University of Chicago professor seems to home in on it like a heat-seeking missile. He once ...

In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social ...

This reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine, or unchallenged US hegemony in the western hemisphere, is a key component of its ...

With the world increasingly awakening from the spell of US hegemony, the US is isolating itself more and more in the international community. Such a trend has apparently worried some US political ...

As Hugh White has argued, the U.S. has never faced a greater challenger in its history as a world power. The U.S. roughly emerged as a great power in the 1880s. In that time, it has faced four major ...

How does hegemony perpetuate itself? The question is obviously relevant to the current state of affairs in East Asia, as we begin to shift from what has been a U.S.-centric system to what may once ...

Ice on the Guyot glacier melting due to climate change in Icy Bay, Alaska. (Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top ...