| Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power Contributor(s): Agnew, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592131530 ISBN-13: 9781592131532 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - 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 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.4" W x 8.96" (0.88 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Selling, buying and consuming are central components of the American experience at home and abroad, not the quest for empire. 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 an 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 and not the formation or management of an empire. John Agnew shows how this drive for global hegemony is now backfiring as production and service jobs move abroad and a new geography of power portends a world in which global hegemony is decreasingly American in either provenance or reward. |