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Challenges to American Hegemony: Realizing and Responding
Challenges to American Hegemony: Realizing and Responding

Author(s): Hang Nguyen
Subject(s): Political Sciences
Published by: Fundacja Instytut Nauki o Polityce
Keywords: American hegemony; domestic problems; psychologic problems; emerging powers; power diffusion

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the challenges to American hegemony in the contemporary world order. It will demonstrate that the rise of the rest including China and India, the possibilities of a massive military attack and an economic collapse on American soil are merely exaggerated challenges to American hegemonic position. The challenges that have great potential to cut into American hegemony are very internal including American domestic and psychologic problems. Looking at the future of American hegemony, the article highlights that the United States still has overwhelming power to sustain its hegemony in the foreseeable time. Yet it is crucially important for American leaders to realize and effectively deal with the imminent challenges to its power. Also, six policy recommendations are made for the United States to endure its hegemony in the contemporary world order

  • Issue Year: 2/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 63-91
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: English