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- The United States emerged from the Cold War as the world's only superpower and grew faster than Europe and Japan in the decade that followed. American bases and naval forces encircle the globe. Russia and China remain only regional powers and have ceased to offer ideological challenges to the West.
Feb 14, 2023 · Washington’s wartime alliance with Moscow began to transform into the geopolitical rivalry of the Cold War. To shore up the United States’ allies, Secretary of State George C. Marshall...
Nov 28, 2016 · The result was a global financial system, called the Bretton Woods system, aimed at coordinating the global economy and preventing another Great Depression — and the United Nations,...
May 20, 2015 · The US had become a European-style imperial power. While this experiment in colonialism was short-lived and controversial at home, it began America's role as a major global power.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The American System
- 3 Unipolarity, Liberalism, and Empire
- 4 Unipolarity and Its Implications
- 5 ‘Hub and Spoke’ Governance
- 6 Multilateralism and Unipolarity
- 7 Conclusion
American global power – military, economic, technological, cultural, political – is one of the great realities of our age. Never before has one country been so powerful or unrivaled. The United States emerged from the Cold War as the world's only superpower and grew faster than Europe and Japan in the decade that followed. American bases and naval ...
In contrast with imperial political formations, the American system took shape in the decades after World War II as an open, negotiated, and institutionalized order among the major democracies. The United States is situated at the center of this complex liberal order – but it is an order built around the American provision of security and economic ...
Despite the postwar legacy of liberal hegemony and Western security community, unpolarity – particularly when combined with the new strategic thinking triggered by September 11 – does make more plausible the logic of American empire. 9This is so not only because of the sheer predominance of American power but also, paradoxically, because unipolar p...
The rise of post-Cold War unipolarity does alter America's position with other states. Increased power advantages give the United States more freedom of action. It is easier for Washington to say no to other countries or to go it alone. Growing power – military, economic, and technological – also gives the United States more opportunities to contro...
There are two general ways in which the United States might choose to ‘govern’ unpolarity. One strategy is the multilateral rule-based strategy of the postwar era, manifested most fully in America's relations with Western Europe. The other strategy is what might be called ‘hub and spoke’ bilateralism. This is a strategy that has been pursued in imp...
There are three types of incentives for the United States to continue to operate within a loose multilateral order rather than simply disentangle itself from rules and institutions or pursue bilateral ‘hub and spoke’ relations. These sources of multilateralism stem from the functional demands of interdependence, the long-term power calculations of ...
Is the United States an empire? The world is certainly more hierarchical today than during any era since the days of ancient Rome. The United States is at the center of a dynamic and expanding political formation rooted in Atlantic and Western institutions and traditions. The American system has features that it shares with past great empires. But ...
- G. John Ikenberry
- 2005
Jun 19, 2024 · It was created on January 10th, 1920, after the Allies defeated the Central Powers in WWI. Through the League, Wilson wanted to transform global politics like never before. Ironically...
4 days ago · The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. This hostility between the two superpowers was first given its name by George Orwell in an article published in 1945.
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15 hours ago · As a result of a tacit Anglo-American agreement, the United States soon became the chief external source of supply for the food, raw materials, and munitions that fed the British and French war machines.
