The Power of Hegemon: the Role of Discourse
This paper explores one of the central issues of current international discourse : how is world order sustained and maintained, is it shifting and changing, is it being reinvented and reimagined, or are we on the cusp of global disorder and competition among great and small powers? The conventional...
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2020-12-01
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| description | This paper explores one of the central issues of current international discourse : how is world order sustained and maintained, is it shifting and changing, is it being reinvented and reimagined, or are we on the cusp of global disorder and competition among great and small powers? The conventional lens used to examine these questions is that of ‘hegemony’ or ‘dominance.’ This paper discusses how hegemony is conceptualized, what kinds of resources are mobilized (material, discursive, institutional, and performative) in maintaining hegemony, and what the current chessboard of geopolitics looks like in terms of rising and falling powers. Despite a chaotic picture of the train derailed there is also an optimistic end of that story. First we are moving from a unipolar to the polycentric world. Secondly that new world will be less dramatically divided as it will be based on macro-regional arrangements. Thirdly multi-regional arrangements will be closer civilizationally and thus less prone to conflicts. Finally - in order to survive - most probably they will voluntarily keep close ties with other macro-regiond making the system more stable that today. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e0632b619b3d47c0a7a8c0e28cd272942022-12-21T20:06:04ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)RUDN Journal of Political Science2313-14382313-14462020-12-0122216717810.22363/2313-1438-2020-22-2-167-17818854The Power of Hegemon: the Role of DiscoursePiotr Dutkiewicz0Carleton UniversityThis paper explores one of the central issues of current international discourse : how is world order sustained and maintained, is it shifting and changing, is it being reinvented and reimagined, or are we on the cusp of global disorder and competition among great and small powers? The conventional lens used to examine these questions is that of ‘hegemony’ or ‘dominance.’ This paper discusses how hegemony is conceptualized, what kinds of resources are mobilized (material, discursive, institutional, and performative) in maintaining hegemony, and what the current chessboard of geopolitics looks like in terms of rising and falling powers. Despite a chaotic picture of the train derailed there is also an optimistic end of that story. First we are moving from a unipolar to the polycentric world. Secondly that new world will be less dramatically divided as it will be based on macro-regional arrangements. Thirdly multi-regional arrangements will be closer civilizationally and thus less prone to conflicts. Finally - in order to survive - most probably they will voluntarily keep close ties with other macro-regiond making the system more stable that today.http://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/viewFile/23644/18177world orderglobal disorderhegemonydiscoursepolitical ontologypolycentricitynon-state actors of hegemony |
| spellingShingle | Piotr Dutkiewicz The Power of Hegemon: the Role of Discourse RUDN Journal of Political Science world order global disorder hegemony discourse political ontology polycentricity non-state actors of hegemony |
| title | The Power of Hegemon: the Role of Discourse |
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| title_short | The Power of Hegemon: the Role of Discourse |
| title_sort | power of hegemon the role of discourse |
| topic | world order global disorder hegemony discourse political ontology polycentricity non-state actors of hegemony |
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