Fascinating stuff Zeinab. My exposure to other countries' resentment of US hegemony has mostly been in France, from the "souverainiste" right, who seem to be licking their chops at the prospect of weakened/less-hegemonic US, (folks like Idriss Aberkane, Pierre-Yves Rougeyron, Alexandre del Valle and others). They seem to think that France can benefit from being on a more equal footing vis-a-vis large but regional in scope powers like Russia, Brazil, etc... Do you think that it's realistic for the world's middling powers to expect to gain more geopolitical influence as the US retreats, or are they mostly deluding themselves?
Multipolarity as a doctrine is largely a reflection of what the modern university has become: a summer camp for transnational elites. I’m more likely to encounter students from Bangladesh or Nigeria on campus than Iowa or Kansas. Multipolarity reflects the ideological preferences of these students and of faculty who are similarly “diverse,” coming from different countries and cultures while thinking exactly the same way.
Interesting article. I’m also skeptical of hegemony, but I also realize that America’s Global Hegemony won’t let forever, but I, despite strongly disagreeing with the current zeitgeist of the West, am still Pro-Western and Pro-America.
I don’t know in which way a world politics will go in the future. There is a benefit and a loss of the hegemony. I don’t have a concern of a security in a multipolar world but a question on ,how we can have a technology and innovation in the future. What happen when different countries try to secure themselves by competing to have a dangerous weapons for their security.
Everybody wants to secure themselves for their survival. Problem with one superpower or centrality is that you don’t understand the problem of other countries face while maintaining central power. You can not maintain, a central power, for a longer time because there is going to be turmoil in other countries ( by product of central decision) and to crush those turmoil you need blood. When you start to use blood and other psychological warfare, you are going to change the psychology of your own people. And then, your own people are going to have a blood on your own street. Only technology don’t get, what you want. You also have to consider the human psychology,
Otherwise you are going to be in a big trouble.
I don’t know of future, but I think it will take some times in the future to settle for the new global political power .
I think Americans are done paying for global security that everyone else benefits from. When the US pulls back, the world will return to the pre-American era with expanding empires (what China and Russia want). The Middle Eastern countries are terrified by this because they exist only with American defense. Pakistan could easily take Iran and Iraq. Turkey would have an easy time regaining Ottoman territories so long as they steer clear of Israel. Piracy will become unimaginably lucrative, stealing oil tankers, containerships full of Chinese products, ..., , and the Yanks can return to their proper role focusing on economic development and technological progress. America was silly to think the world would like it after it spent so much blood and treasure on secure trading routes, the enforcement of global norms and other thankless tasks. The Americans will go home, and the US will benefit. The rest of the world can do as they please.
I like the quote- you should surrender and be Happy
"You'll eat your geopolitical chaos and like it!"
Fascinating stuff Zeinab. My exposure to other countries' resentment of US hegemony has mostly been in France, from the "souverainiste" right, who seem to be licking their chops at the prospect of weakened/less-hegemonic US, (folks like Idriss Aberkane, Pierre-Yves Rougeyron, Alexandre del Valle and others). They seem to think that France can benefit from being on a more equal footing vis-a-vis large but regional in scope powers like Russia, Brazil, etc... Do you think that it's realistic for the world's middling powers to expect to gain more geopolitical influence as the US retreats, or are they mostly deluding themselves?
Multipolarity as a doctrine is largely a reflection of what the modern university has become: a summer camp for transnational elites. I’m more likely to encounter students from Bangladesh or Nigeria on campus than Iowa or Kansas. Multipolarity reflects the ideological preferences of these students and of faculty who are similarly “diverse,” coming from different countries and cultures while thinking exactly the same way.
You should be Secretary of State or UN Ambassador.
Interesting article. I’m also skeptical of hegemony, but I also realize that America’s Global Hegemony won’t let forever, but I, despite strongly disagreeing with the current zeitgeist of the West, am still Pro-Western and Pro-America.
I don’t know in which way a world politics will go in the future. There is a benefit and a loss of the hegemony. I don’t have a concern of a security in a multipolar world but a question on ,how we can have a technology and innovation in the future. What happen when different countries try to secure themselves by competing to have a dangerous weapons for their security.
Everybody wants to secure themselves for their survival. Problem with one superpower or centrality is that you don’t understand the problem of other countries face while maintaining central power. You can not maintain, a central power, for a longer time because there is going to be turmoil in other countries ( by product of central decision) and to crush those turmoil you need blood. When you start to use blood and other psychological warfare, you are going to change the psychology of your own people. And then, your own people are going to have a blood on your own street. Only technology don’t get, what you want. You also have to consider the human psychology,
Otherwise you are going to be in a big trouble.
I don’t know of future, but I think it will take some times in the future to settle for the new global political power .
I think Americans are done paying for global security that everyone else benefits from. When the US pulls back, the world will return to the pre-American era with expanding empires (what China and Russia want). The Middle Eastern countries are terrified by this because they exist only with American defense. Pakistan could easily take Iran and Iraq. Turkey would have an easy time regaining Ottoman territories so long as they steer clear of Israel. Piracy will become unimaginably lucrative, stealing oil tankers, containerships full of Chinese products, ..., , and the Yanks can return to their proper role focusing on economic development and technological progress. America was silly to think the world would like it after it spent so much blood and treasure on secure trading routes, the enforcement of global norms and other thankless tasks. The Americans will go home, and the US will benefit. The rest of the world can do as they please.