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a lot of "inside baseball" ---- not sure reading parts II and III were worth it .... (My $.02) On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Trump is not proposing an end to American hegemony. Rather, he seeks a > change in how the US exercises leadership and a consequent shift in > international and regional orders. If your primary beef with American > hegemony has been its hypocrisy—its failure to live up to its rhetoric > about liberal order—then Trump wants to solve your problem: by making the > order less liberal. > > America’s strategic position—its hegemonic leadership—is not a story about > a colossus striding the world on its own two feet. It’s a function of the > strength of its strategic partnerships and core allies. The post-1992 > order—for good or for ill—was very much a collective achievement. On its > own, the United States is much less impressive than discussions of > “unipolarity,” or the fantasies of certain flavors of nationalists, would > have you believe. > > The immediate consequence of the rise of China and of Russian > assertiveness lies in the breaking of the ‘greater west’s’ dominance over > international-order making. For good or for ill, countries now have more > options about where to go for development aid, security assistance, and > geopolitical support. > > Because the concentration of raw power among the ‘core allies’ remains > very impressive, their major problem lies in maintaining cohesion. But here > they are doing very poorly, and right-wing populism (with the encouragement > of Russia) is the major immediate threat. The longer-term challenge is > renegotiating the bargain to reflect contemporary challenges. > > http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/07/american-hegemony-part > > part 2: http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/07/american- > hegemony-part-ii-liberal-order-concept-good > > part 3: http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/08/american- > hegemony-part-iii-time-non-game-theory > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/mameerop%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
