Re: Hegemony and Control, was "question folks"

Cox argues that the American way of life has never been a more powerful
model. The "business civilization" that Strange talks about is
American-derived. Globalization is in many respects the Americanization of
the world. Ismail is right: the US set the tone for the post WWII dynamic,
and even though the the machinery is differentiated by national entities
the hegemony is global. It would only make a profound difference that the
EU control x-share of x-dimension of the world-economy if one assumes that
the EU's economic philosophy fundamentally diverges from Americanism. The
model remains, as Gill points out, the Anglo-American neo-liberal model.

Andrew Austin
Knoxville, TN

On Mon, 8 May 2000 ilagardien@worldbank.org wrote:

>Dennis
>
>You are, of course, correct. The point is that the superstructure that was
>created - the so-called liberal international economic order (Gilpin) - is
>conducive to this type of competition with only one caveat, that does not
>become anti-systemic.
>
>The hegemony that the United States established in teh post-war years
>ensured basic outcomes (regardless of its own position as hegemon).