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Prospects of Decline and Hegemonic Shifts for the West

Journal of World-Systems Research

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Title Prospects of Decline and Hegemonic Shifts for the West
 
Creator Komlosy, Andrea
 
Subject History; Global Studies
hegemonic competition; anti-systemic movements and alliances, South-South cooperation
 
Description The decline of the “West” and the loss of U.S. global hegemony is accompanied by a three-sided debate. Some scholars have argued that emerging powers in the Global South will succeed the United States and assume a hegemonic role in the world-economy. They argue that China or an alliance of semi-peripheral states in the South will dominate capitalist or post-capitalist cycles of accumulation in the future. Other scholars rather think that China and other emerging states will find it difficult to catch up and assume a hegemonic role. This paper discusses the consequences of decline for the West and describes three possible western responses to its global economic and hegemonic decline: Resisting Decline—The West will seek to maintain its claim to lead by mobilizing defensive and aggressive military forces, searching for new alliances and partnerships, undermining old and new competitors; Suffering (Semi-) Peripheralization—The West will surrender control of global commodity chains, which will move to the new cores, a development that will contribute to social polarization and the precarization of labour-relations in the old core; Accepting Re-regionalization/Provincialization—The West will accept the loss of hegemony and become just another “province” of the world.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
Contributor University of Vienna
 
Date 2016-08-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/627
10.5195/jwsr.2016.627
 
Source Journal of World-Systems Research; Vol 22, No 2 (2016): Special Issue: Coloniality of Power and Hegemonic Shifts in the World-System; 463-483
1076-156X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/627/845
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Andrea Komlosy
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