As the U.S. becomes less democratic, Trump appears interested in promoting populist rulers around the world. It could backfire. The post Under Trump, the U.S. Has Adopted an Autocracy Promotion ...

A true regional hegemon doesn’t have to rely on others to dominate its neighborhood, but Israel does. U.S. support has been ironclad for decades, due to the influence of a powerful domestic ...

“Hegemon” is a loaded word, even if the Greek root simply means leader. In world politics the term refers to a superpower that dominates the international system as a whole, for good or ill.

Katherine C. Epstein discusses the rise of the military-industrial complex, tracing its origins back to naval technology ...

America: Still the Hegemon. Published Feb 19, 2008 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 4:55 PM EST. By Daniel W. Drezner . Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member. FOLLOW. news article.

In this way, the concept of the cheap hegemon may become a guiding principle for U.S. foreign policy in the years to come. About The Author . Chart Westcott.

For Taiwan, the Israel-Iran conflict has become an unexpected case study in how to defend a democracy against a regional hegemon.

Despite this, in 2009, it was his work to which Larry Summers turned as he co-ordinated America’s response to the financial crisis while director of the National Economic Council.

In this thoughtful study, Montgomery seeks to understand the logic that leads hegemons to variously support, accommodate, and oppose upstart states on their periphery. All global powers want access to ...