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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784254803321

Autore

Agnew John A

Titolo

Hegemony [[electronic resource] ] : the new shape of global power / / John Agnew

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-281-09361-0

9786611093617

1-59213-767-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

337.73

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics)

Globalization

Civilization, Modern - American influences

World politics - 21st century

Geopolitics

United States Foreign economic relations

United States Economic policy

United States Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Hegemony versus Empire; 3 American Hegemony and the New Geography of Power; 4 Placing American Hegemony; 5 U.S. Constitutionalism or Marketplace Society?; 6 Globalizing American Hegemony; 7 The New Global Economy; 8 Globalization Comes Home; 9 Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Hegemony tells the story of the drive to create consumer capitalism abroad through political pressure and the promise of goods for mass consumption. In contrast to the recent literature on America as empire, it explains that the primary goal of the foreign and economic policies of the United States is a world which increasingly reflects the American way of doing business, not the formation or management of an empire. Contextualizing both the Iraq war and recent plant closings in the U.S.,



noted author John Agnew shows how American hegemony has created a world in which power is no