The Future of Hegemony: Toward a New Global Order in the Time of the ＂Rise of the Rest＂

Ho-Fung Hung

《Asian Studies》 1卷1期 (2015/09) Pp. 39-67

https://doi.org/10.6551/AS.0101.03

並列摘要

The concepts of hegemony and hegemonic cycle, as well as their variants, have inspired as much as confused social scientific debates about the future of world order ever since the beginning of the end of the US hegemony in the 1970s. While some project the rise of a new core capitalist country (Japan? Germany?) as the new hegemon, some envision the coming of a tripolar global order with the US, Germany and Japan as three rival centers of power and wealth, or the emergence of a unipolar global empire centered at the US. Despite their differences, these different projections never question the continuous dominance of Western or core countries in the world system. The rapid economic or geopolitical ascendancy of new powers in the non- Western and (semi)periphery segment of the world- such as Brazil, China, India, Iran, and Russia- over the last decade challenges this assumption. It leads to the emergence of ＂Rise of the Rest＂ as an alternative conception of the incipient new world order. I seek to critically review this cacophony of imaginations of the global in light of the transformations of global capitalism in the last three decades. A synthesis will be attempted to construct a new framework of theorizing the global formation that surpasses Western-centrism and modernism.

並列關鍵字

dollar standard ； hegemonic transitions ； US hegemony ； China ； empire