American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission

Dr Stephen Gill examines the extent and nature of Americas as a hegemonic state.

Stephen Gill (Author)

9780521424332, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 7 November 1991

320 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 1.9 cm, 0.424 kg

Review of the hardback: 'This book is much more than a study of the Trilateral Commission or another contribution to the debate on hegemonic decline. It is a demonstration of how to write about a global political economy that is as much a relationship of classes and a process of ideological formation as it is an interstate system - an historical bloc in Gramsci's sense of the term. This is a pioneering work in the study of global structural change that goes well beyond conventional international relations theory.' Robert W. Cox, York University, Canada

American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission, first published in 1991, makes an original contribution to a subject of great interest to specialists and students of international relations and international political economy - the extent and nature of America as an international power and a hegemonic state up until the end of the 1980s. In examining the role of the USA in the post-war world order, Stephen Gill challenges arguments concerning the relative decline of American hegemony. He maintains that instead of equating hegemony with the dominance of one state over other states, one should redefine the question of hegemony in terms of the relationship between economic, military, cultural and political forces. Gill also develops a concept of transnational hegemony - the rise in the power of internationally mobile capital.

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Realist and liberal perspectives
3. Marxist perspectives: the question of hegemony redefined
4. The decline of American hegemony: myth and reality
5. Towards an American-centred transnational hegemony?
6. Private international relations councils
7. Aims, activities, organisation and membership of the trilateral commission
8. Theoretical and practical aspects of the trilateral commission
9. Hegemony, knowledge and the limit of internationalism
Appendices
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS]