Challenges to American Hegemony: Realizing and Responding

• Authors: Nguyen Hang
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

American hegemony; domestic problems; psychologic problems; emerging powers; power diffusion

• Publisher: Fundacja Instytut Nauki o Polityce
• Journal: Polish Journal of Political Science
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 63-91

Dates

published

2016-03-15

Contributors

author

Nguyen Hang

• School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University