Exiting from Hegemony: The Transformation of American-led Order
In Exit from Hegemony, Cooley and Nexon explore three processes that have eroded U.S. leadership: exit from above via great-power challengers, exit from below via weaker states leveraging the availability of new patrons, and exit from within via counter-order movements and political parties. In this talk, they develop the logics of these processes and illustrate their operation in a number of contemporary contexts. They argue that Trump has been both a symptom and accelerant of these processes, and discuss what a new Biden administration can and can’t do to alter the trajectory of change in International order.
About this Lecture
This Lectures of Opportunity offers U.S. Naval War College (NWC) students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn more about national and international socio-political subjects that may be of relevance to the NWC community.