| Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power Contributor(s): Agnew, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592131522 ISBN-13: 9781592131525 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $72.68 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Globalization - Political Science | International Relations - Diplomacy - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy |
| Dewey: 337.73 |
| LCCN: 2004058896 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.4" W x 9.28" (1.10 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 longer only shaped territorially. He argues in a sobering conclusion that we are consequently entering a new era of global power, one in which the world the US has made no longer works to its singular advantage. |