Hegemony Constrained

Evasion, Modification, and Resistance to American Foreign Policy

Davis B. Bobrow

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN: 9780822973362
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In the post-cold war era, the United States has risen to a position of unprecedented dominance in the world and has often pursued a primarily unilateral approach to international policy issues. Hegemony Constrained examines how nations, ethnic and religious groups, and international organizations cope with American hegemony. The chapters reveal the various ways in which foreign actors attempt and sometimes succeed in keeping official Washington from achieving its preferred outcomes.An international group of contributors considers how and why a variety of foreigners act strategically to avoid, delay, or change American policy with respect to a broad range of issues in world affairs. Individual chapters analyze the Kurds and Shia in Iraq; the governments of China, Japan, Turkey, and Germany; the G-7; liberalizing the international economy; coping with global warming; regulating harmful tax competition; controlling missile proliferation; limiting public health damage from tobacco; and international public opinion bearing on the politics of responding to a hegemonic America. By recognizing and illustrating moves that challenge American unilateralism, Hegemony Constrained provides a framework for understanding and anticipating the goals, motives, and means others in the world bring to their dealings with American hegemony in specific situations. Thus, it offers a corrective to naively optimistic unilateralism and naively optimistic multilateralism.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• 1. Strategies beyond Followership | Davis B. Bobrow
• 2. Modes of Iraqi Response to American Occupation | Jeremy Pressman
• 3. The Reluctant Ally: German Domestic Politics and the War against Saddam Hussein | Siegmar Schmidt
• 4. Soft Deterrence, Passive Resistance: American Lenses, Chinese Lessons | Steve Chan
• 5. The United States and Turkey: Limiting Unilateralism | Ilter Turan
• 6. Resistance to Hegemony within the Core: Domestic Politics, Terrorism, and Policy Divergence in the G-7 | Thomas J. Volgy, Krist in Kanthak, Derrick Frazier, and Robert Stewart-Ingersoll
• 7. Thwarting U.S. Missile Defense from within the Missile Technology Control Regime | Dennis M. Gormley
• 8. Europa Riding the Hegemon? Transatlantic Climate Policy | Alexander Ochs and Detlef F. Sprinz
• 9. Developmental Opposition in International Trade Regimes: Regional Groupings and State and Civil Society Coalitions | Diana Tussie
• 10. U.S. Defection from the OECD “Harmful Tax Competition” Project: Rhetoric and Reality | Robert T. Kudrle
• 11. Saving the World from Big Tobacco: The Real Coalition of the Willing | Judith P. Wilkenfeld
• 12. International Public Opinion: Incentives and Options to Comply and Challenge | Davis B. Bobrow
• 13. The Implications of Constrained Hegemony | Davis B. Bobrow
• Notes
• References
• List of Contributors
• Index