Stories of Hegemony
The Political Stakes of the Rise and Decline of US Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3624014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shampa Biswa, Shampa Biswas (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1031-1039 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911816001613 |
| OpenAlex | W2563164461 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
With Asia as its backdrop, Alfred McCoy's paper gives us a story of the rise of US hegemony after World War II. Using "military bases" rather than wars as a metric of imperial power, the paper traces the geopolitics of imperial expansion (and sometimes retraction) through a close and rich study of the many contestations around US military presence in the Philippines-contestations that occurred in both the United States and the Philippines. In doing so, one of the paper's most profound insights, made with considerable archival documentation, is that colonization and decolonization do not follow a linear trajectory and that its politics, rather than a simple imposition from the colonizer onto the colonized, are instead quite messy, complicated, and perhaps mostly importantly, in a constant state of negotiation. Thus, for instance, the paper shows us that political independence is not a clear rupture from colonization to decolonization, that arguments for the continuation or discontinuation of imperial relations post-independence are complex on both sides of the imperial divide and shift in different directions over time, and that who appears as a "threat" or an "enemy" that mobilizes a national community and nationalist resistance is also complex and inconstant. In other words, McCoy provides us with a historically detailed story of the rise of US hegemony in the latter half of the twentieth century through an account of the complex expansion of the US presence in Asia
Decolonization · Geopolitics · Great power · Hegemony · Independence (probability theory) · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture
Colossus
The Long Peace
Production, power and world order
American hegemony and the Trilateral Commission
“Westphalian” Meets “Eastphalian” Sovereignty
War and Change in World Politics
Liberal Leviathan
Neither New nor Nefarious
Ideologies of Globalization
Values to Be Added to an “Eastphalia Order” by the Emerging China
Eastphalia as the Perfection of Westphalia
A World without Power
A Grand Strategy of Transformation
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
The geographical pivot of history (1904)
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |