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Book SynopsisAlthough the United States is currently the world's only military and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of U.S. power are illuminated by careful study of the past. This book addresses the problems of conceptualizing and assessing hegemonic rise and decline in comparative and historical perspective. Several chapters are devoted to the study of hegemony in premodern world-systems. And several chapters scrutinize the contemporary position and trajectory of the United States in the larger world-system in comparison with the rise and decline of earlier great powers, such as the Dutch and British empires. Contributors: Kasja Ekholm, Johnny Persson, Norihisa Yamashita, Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly Silver, Karen Barkey, Jonathan Friedman, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Rebecca Giem, Andrew Jorgenson, John Rogers, Shoon Lio, Thomas Reifer, Peter Taylor, Albert Bergesen, Omar Lizardo, Thomas D. Hall.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hegemonic Declines, Jonathan Friedman, Christopher Chase-Dunn; Part I On the Way to the Modern World-System; Chapter 1 Escaping a Closed Universe, Johnny Persson; Chapter 2 Structure, Dynamics, and the Final Collapse of Bronze Age Civilizations in the Second Millennium B.C., Kajsa Ekholm Friedman; Chapter 3 Plus Ça Change?, Jonathan Friedman; Part II Comparing Modern Hegemonic Declines; Chapter 4 Dutch Hegemony and Contemporary Globalization, Peter J. Taylor; Chapter 5 A Perspective on Ottoman Decline, Karen Barkey; Chapter 6 Polanyi’s “Double Movement”, Beverly J. Silver, Giovanni Arrighi; Chapter 7 Globalization, Democratization, and Global Elite Formation in Hegemonic Cycles, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer; Part III Hegemonic Decline and Resistance; Chapter 8 Indigenous Peoples and Hegemonic Change, Thomas D. Hall, James V. Fenelon; Chapter 9 Terrorism and Hegemonic Decline, Albert J. Bergesen, Omar A. Lizardo;
