their own values and principles. After the Second World War US became the most powerful state in the world and established its hegemony on the big part of the world. After the Cold War‚ United States was maintaining its strong hegemony unarguably for a decade. In the period between 1991 and 2001‚ America as a unique superpower on the system conducted benign hegemony as a conceptualized policy. Rather than imposing by force‚ to prevent potential rival powers it implemented an approach of protecting
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limited framework and critical theories that go beyond them to identify the origins and its developmental potential and historical phenomena. Thus‚ in this paper‚ the concept of hegemony‚ historic bloc and war and terror in the world order will be examined according to the Afghanistan occupation. Neo-Realist concept of hegemony includes one powerful state that dominates other with its military and economic capabilities. However‚ neo-gramscian approach is much wider than this definition which includes
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AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES 63 BEYOND THE BUSH DOCTRINE: AMERICAN HEGEMONY AND WORLD ORDER MARTIN GRIFFITHS The scar does the work of the wound.1 This article elaborates the changing nature of American hegemony in international relations‚ and assesses the Bush Administration’s determination to change the basis of US hegemony in the context of its proclaimed ‘war on terror’. I argue that the Administration’s grand strategy is self-defeating‚ threatening the status of the United
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their share of world power‚ because the system will punish them if they attempt to gain too much power. The pursuit of hegemony‚ they argue‚ is especially reckless. Offensive realists like John Mearsheimer (2001) take the opposite view; they maintain that it makes good strategic sense for states to gain as much power as possible and‚ if the circumstances are right‚ to pursue hegemony. With the demise of the ‘Soviet threat’‚ a world no longer divided along strategic bipolar lines has been formed. (Lazar
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Phuong tran – university of sheffield | Critically compare the neorealist and neo-Marxist approaches to globalization. Which approach is most useful in your view? | Neo-realism According to Jackson and Sorensen (2003)‚ the leading contemporary neorealist thinker is undoubtedly Kenneth Waltz (1979). His starting point is taken from some elements of classical and neoclassical‚ such as independent state existing and performing in an anarchical international system. Waltz’s Theory of international
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In the book ‘The Tragedy of Great Power Politics’‚ Mearsheimer presents a theory on ‘offensive realism’‚ which is an alternative to the ‘defensive realism’ developed by Kenneth Waltz and the ‘classical realism’ of Hans Morgenthau. Offensive Realism conceptualizes the relationship of power position and national interests of great powers. Mearsheimer states that there are five assumptions reasonably represent an important aspect of the international system. Firstly‚ the international system is
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NAME: OBUBO ADORA PROGRAMME: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MATRIC NO: 09AH09247 COURSE CODE: IRL 324 LECTURER: DR SHERIFF FOLARIN IN WHAT CONTEXT IS REGIONALISM THE APPROPRIATE FRAMEWORK IN POLITICAL ANALYSIS? Historically‚ most states have been concerned primarily with the capabilities and intentions of their neighbors. This consequently consolidates one of the most striking facts about modern global political system – it is strongly organized on regional basis. Taking into consideration the current
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Power is define as the capacity of an individual to influence others‚ tempt others to persuade and encourage others to obtain specific administrative goals or to engage in specific behaviour (Cangemi‚ 1992). According to French and Raven’s (1960) there are five bases of power which can be divided into formal power and personal power (Robbins‚ 2011). The first formal power is coercive power‚ which is based upon punishment by these individual to power for failure to conform or achieve administration
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MOTIVES THAT CONTRIBUTED TO IMPERIALISM Imperialism is defined in the dictionary as being a " The policy of extending a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by establishing economic and political hegemony over other nations" (p 681 American Heritage college Dictionary). Usually people associate imperialism as being the domination of a small country by a larger‚ more powerful country‚ usually to the advantage of the larger country. At the beginning of the nineteenth century most of the
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Q: What is Antonio Gramsci’s concept of understanding of the intellectuals. How is it different from the conventional perception of intellectual in his essay "The Formation of the Intellectuals" Ans: Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci in his essay "The Formation of the Intellectuals" focuses on the way how intellectuals are formed in a society and the activites they perform in it. Every society is composed of various social groups‚ which has specific role in the mose of production because of the
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