The American Empire in the New Century

Luis Fernando Ayerbe
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Luis Fernando Ayerbe: Department of Economics and Graduate Program of International Relations, State University of São Paulo (UNESP), Avenida Infante Dom Henrique 958, Araraquara, Sao Paulo 14802–060, Brazil; Harvard University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ayerbelf@horizon.com.br

Journal of Developing Societies, 2005, vol. 21, issue 3-4, 301-320

Abstract: This chapter analyzes the current position of United States supremacy, in light of the debate on hegemony and domination that acquires greater relevance after the formulation of the ‘Bush Doctrine’, which is systematized in the document ‘The National Security Strategy of the United States of America’. Our approach will emphasize the following aspects: establishment of a parallel between the transition from the 19th to the 20th centuries, from studies that point out the characteristics of imperialism at different times; an analysis of the current foreign policies of the United States, focusing on the debate between unilateralism and multilateralism, emphasizing the reactions caused by the intervention in Iraq; a critical argument about the approaches that highlight in the security agenda of the Bush administration an indicator of a loss of hegemony, which would impose open domination over the search for consensus.

Keywords: Bush Doctrine; hegemony; imperialism; Lenin; Rosa Luxemburg; Samuel Huntington (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/0169796X05058289

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