American Hegemony in the Twenty-First Century: Consensus and Legitimac

American Hegemony in the 21st deoxycytidine monophosphate Consensus and LegitimacyAbstract Since the end of the nipping War, the United evidences has been the worlds only unquestioned superpower. How the United States evaluates its position as global hegemon has grievous consequences for American foreign policy, particularly with regards to the potential for future policy constraints. Thus, this reputation seeks to consider the question How durable is American hegemony? The paper first defines the enounce of American hegemony and then considers the primary challengers Europe, Russia, China, Japan and imperial overstretch. It will reason out that in the long-term, East Asian geopolitical instability poses the greatest holy terror to American hegemony, but that in the short-term, the hegemony will prove to be instead durable as long as the United States can sabotage the phenomenon of imperial overstretch. In order to diffuse both internal and international threats to hegemony, American leaders should work to pursue national interests within a framework of consensus and legitimacy as much as possible. American Hegemony in the Twenty-First Century Preserving the Status Quo by Fostering ConsensusI.Introduction why Hegemony MattersThe Soviet Unions collapse at the end of the Cold War left the United States without its major global rival. Now entirely at the top, the United States strategic imperatives have shifted remarkably. The shift has been significant profuse to prompt fundamental questions about the international order and whether this new unipolar moment will last. Indeed, since 1989, political scientists have clamored to define the United States perspective relative to the rest of the world. Indispensable nation? Sole super... ...002.Mastanduno, Michael and Ethan B. Kaplan. Realism and State Strategies subsequently the Cold War. Unipolar Politics Realism and State Strategies after the Cold War. Eds. Ethan B. Kapstein and Michael Mastanduno. New York Columbia University Press, 1999. 1-27.Nye, Jr., Joseph S. The Paradox of American Power wherefore the Worlds Only Superpower Cant Go It Alone. Oxford Oxford University Press, 2002.Rielly, Dr. John. The Future of American Hegemony, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 29 November 2004.Sicherman, Harvey. A Cautionary report The U.S. and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. In Eagle Rules? Foreign Policy and American Primacy in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Robert J. Lieber. New Jersey Prentice Hall, 2002. 152-172.Wohlforth, William C. The Stability of a Unipolar World. multinational Security, 24.1 (Summer 1999), pp. 5-41.