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Hegemony? Maybe not.(Insider Report)
In the mid-1990s, neo-conservative globalists began touting the supposed virtues of a Washington-directed "benevolent global hegemony." The open-ended "war on terror" begun after 9/11 provided a rationale to pursue global dominance in the name of securing the homeland. But a funny thing happened on the way to "hegemony": much of the rest of the world decided it didn't want to play along.
"At present, the U.S. has lost the position that it was perceived to have after the fall of the Soviet Union as the undisputed global superpower presiding over an economic order integrating a world of market democracies," observed the December 15 issue of the Power and Interest News Report, a geo-strategic newsletter. "Contemporary global politics are structured primarily by a struggle of regional powers to assert themselves against efforts by Washington to reclaim at least some of its dominance." This is because "Washington has ... lost [the] acquiescence to its leadership. Other powers no longer have any compunction about opposing U.S. policies and preferences when it is not in their own independent interests to follow them."
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