Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)

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Allison, G. (2017) Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s trap? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. One thing we can’t do is just unlearn all the habits of online interaction that have emerged over the past two decades, Nor should we discount the possibility that social media, run according to different principles, might be positive for political solidarity. So the key questions are: what are those different principles? And how do we get to them from where we are now? A recent event at LSE set out to discuss these questions .

Zolo, D. (2007) ‘Contemporary Uses of The Notion of “Empire”’, The Monist. JSTOR, 90(1), pp. 48–64. Hegemony ( / h ɛ ˈ dʒ ɛ m ən i/ ⓘ, UK also / h ɪ ˈ ɡ ɛ m ən i/, US also / ˈ h ɛ dʒ ə m oʊ n i/) is the political, economic, and military predominance of one state over other states. [1] [2] [3] Hegemony can be regional or global. [3]Strange, S. (1987) ‘The Persistent Myth of Lost Hegemony’, International Organization. Cambridge University Press, 41(4), pp. 551–574.

Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformation in power? And what can we do about it? Perry Cooper Sands, The Client Princes under the Republic, New York: Arno Press, 1975, pp. 114, 160. Deutsch, Karl W.; Singer, J. David (1964). "Multipolar Power Systems and International Stability". World Politics. 16 (3): 390–406. doi: 10.2307/2009578. ISSN 0043-8871. JSTOR 2009578. S2CID 53540403. Hegemony may take different forms. Benevolent hegemons provide public goods to the countries within their sphere of influence. Coercive hegemons exert their economic or military power to discipline unruly or free-riding countries in their sphere of influence. Exploitative hegemonies extract resources from other countries. [70] [71]

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Theoretically sophisticated with an emphasis on the spatial realization of American economic power and influence, this is an important recent contribution to the literature. Ouellette, Laurie; Gray, Jonathan, eds. (2017). Keywords for Media Studies. NYU Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt1gk08zz. ISBN 978-1-4798-1747-4. No-one did more to elevate the concept of hegemony to the centre of social analysis than the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, and at the heart of his writing is the notion of consent. Danner, Lukas K.; Martín, Félix E. (2019). "China's hegemonic intentions and trajectory: Will it opt for benevolent, coercive, or Dutch-style hegemony?". Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies. 6 (2): 186–207. doi: 10.1002/app5.273. ISSN 2050-2680. The French Socialist politician Hubert Védrine in 1999 described the US as a hegemonic hyperpower, because of its unilateral military actions worldwide. [56]

From the 7th century to the 12th century, the Umayyad Caliphate and later Abbasid Caliphate dominated the vast territories they governed, with other states like the Byzantine Empire paying tribute. [37] Ferguson, N. (2005) ‘The Unconscious Colossus: Limits of (& Alternatives to) American Empire’, Daedalus. MIT Press, 134(2), pp. 18–33.

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Spain 1516 to 1659 (From the accession of Charles I of Spain to the Treaty of the Pyrenees). Based on the Spanish dominance of the European battlefields and the global exploration and colonization of the New World. Main article: Cultural hegemony NATO countries account for over 70% of global military expenditure, [61] with the United States alone accounting for 43% of global military expenditure in 2009. [62] Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), the theoretician of cultural hegemony