Analysis of the complications of the decline of American hegemony In the capitalist world system

Document Type : Science - Research (International Relation)

Authors
Abolfazl Anaei 1
Amir Masud shahramnia 2
Seyyed Javaad Emaam Jomezade 3
Hossein Masoudnia 3
1 PhD student in Political Science, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, I.R.Iran.
2 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Isfahan. Isfahan, I.R.Iran (Corresponding author).
3 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, I.R.Iran.
10.30497/pkn.2022.240924.2850
Abstract
One of the most contentious issues in the post-Soviet world order is the continuing hegemonic influence of the United States. Due to the increasing influence of this country in the politics and economy of the world -system due to the lack of balancing centers of power, the relentless tendency of its economy to deepen militarization and increase military-security budgets in the last three decades and the federal government's efforts to free the economy from Continued recessionary inflation has significantly increased the country's destructive role in world politics and economy. The consequence of this trend can be seen in the intensification of US hegemony and unilateralism in international politics. It seems that this unilateralism can be nothing more than the establishment of the American world order in all the space-time coordinates of the capitalist world-system. Adding to the importance of the debate is the United States' efforts to undermine or disrupt the political and economic progress of any nation-state that could disrupt or disrupt the American world order. It could involve gaining a greater share of the global economic cake or controlling the geopolitical divisions of the world -system. Or it would be a just military strike. In this regard, it is necessary to ask a few questions. First, what are the causes of the emergence of the policy of US hegemony; What is the relationship between the development of the capitalist economy and the increase of national wealth and hegemonic foreign policy and militaristic economy; What are the consequences of US hegemony; And how is the hegemonic cycle realized in the world -system? Research shows that the unequal concentration and concentration of capital and the increase of industrial production in a state can have a decisive influence on the emergence of militaristic foreign policy and the emergence of hegemonic behaviors to establish world order based on the interests of a dominant state. Thus, the present study analyzes and explains the causes and consequences of US hegemony and hegemonic systemic transformations based on the theoretical and methodological tradition of world-systems  analysis by Immanuel Wallerstein and Giovanni Arighi.
Keywords
Capitalism
Hegemony
Kondratieff cycles
United States of America
World system
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Journal of Political Knowledge
Volume 18, Issue 2 - Serial Number 36
ESSAY
September 2022
Pages 307-334

  • Receive Date 08 May 2021
  • Accept Date 25 January 2022