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LEADING THE WORLD: HEGEMONIC MODELS IN CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL POLITIC
Abstract
While sovereignty remains a hallmark of the increasingly globalized international system, the major powers are in particularly interested in offering directions to global politics, by taking the lead in formulating goals and policies, and thus promoting their vision. The present paper considers that these plans can be regarded in the terms of “hegemonic” enterprises - projects directed by a great power/ group of great powers for influencing other states through the interaction rules and public goods provided. The aim of the paper is to suggest an intellectual framework for understanding them. The paper thus distinguishes between four different models of hegemony. The first one is the American hegemonic model that has shaped the major international institutions in the post- World War II era. The second model discussed is a purely functional co-hegemonic project, designed by the great powers for the common management of the most elusive phenomena connected with globalization processes, so that they create a concert of power. A third type, a co-hegemonic ideological model, can be observed by studying, the Transatlantic partnership. The fourth type is the most common and known hegemonic attempt, supported by a single great power in its self-designed sphere of influence. The authors discuss the interplay between these models of hegemony, asserting that they all represent a governing answer to the challenges of anarchy and globalization shared by states. These dynamics are understood as a complex interaction among hegemonic projects.
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