Undermining American Hegemony

Goods Substitution in World Politics

Morten Skumsrud Andersen, Alexander Cooley, Daniel H. Nexon

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781108844970
• eBook ISBN: 9781108957601
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Advancing a new approach to the study of international order, this book highlights the stakes disguised by traditional theoretical languages of power transitions and hegemonic wars. Rather than direct challenges to US military power, the most consequential undermining of hegemony is routine, bottom-up processes of international goods substitution: a slow hollowing out of the existing order through competition to seek or offer alternative sources for economic, military, or social goods. Studying how actors gain access to alternative suppliers of these public goods, this volume shows how states consequently move away from the liberal international order. Examining unfamiliar – but crucial – cases, it takes the reader on a journey from local Faroese politics, to Russian election observers in Central Asia, to South American drug lords. Broadening the debate about the role of public goods in international politics, this book offers a new perspective of one of the key issues of our time.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Goods Substitution and the Logics of International Order Transformation
• 2 Goods Substitution and Counter-Hegemonic Strategies
• 3 International Rankings As Normative Goods: Hegemony and the Quest for Social Status
• 4 China and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Undermining Hegemony through Goods Substitution?
• 5 The Silk Road to Goods Substitution: Central Asia and the Rise of New Post-Western International Orders
• 6 Goods Substitution in the USA’s Back Yard: Colombia’s Diversification Strategies under Conditions of Hierarchy
• 7 Goods Substitution at High Latitude: Undermining Hegemony from below in the North Atlantic
• 8 Reflections on the Volume
• Bibliography
• Index