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According to Webster dictionary hegemony is “the predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others”. ...
Whole US history of modern time was a long crusade for world hegemonic power and domination of Western (American) style of life, political regime, and economic system. United states exercise economic, cultural, military, political, ecological hegemony around the world. ... In 1903 US took under control Panama and in 1904 Dominican Republic. First truly international experience US got as a supporter of White Armies intervention in Russia in 1918-1921. US actively participated in the Second World War showing itself as country with growing military capabilities and as result international ambitions. Beginning of the Cold War era was a direct claim for the world hegemonic power. At that time the foundation of American economic hegemony was built through international economic organizations (WTO, IMF, World Bank) and wide economic packages to European countries. Cold War decided who survive in the deadly competition for the world dominance. After the collapse of bipolarity system and rivalry between US and Soviet Union international world order get dominated by one basic power – US. ... 221) There was not the question is it good or bad, but rather it was objective reality, where one country could reap the benefits of the possibility to be dominant over the world. From the very beginning many questions sprang about moral, political, cultural, military, economical, ecological sides of the issue. ...
As, my research shows, US dominance is bad for the world, and even if it has any positive sides, there is the question of popular perception of US hegemony around the world. As a part of my group work I will be emphasizing cultural hegemony of US, its effects and perceptions.
Thus, first of all I should clarify main tool of promotion of American hegemony around the world. ... Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as whole. ... He ironically notices: “Thanks to the television and Internet, the world now often seems closer than our immediate neighbors. ... People mean by westernization a whole range of things including spread of European languages and the consumer culture of western capitalism, but also styles of eating, dressing, architectural and musical forms, the adoption of urban lifestyle based around industrial production, a pattern of cultural experience dominated by media, a set of philosophical ideas, a range of cultural values and attitudes – about personal liberty, gender and sexuality, human rights, the political process, the religion, scientific and technologic rationality. Westernization is the spread of social and cultural totality. ... The mentioned above ‘cultural totality’ is directed toward decreasing role of local cultures and growth of influence of Western world and everything relevant to it. So, we can equalize Westernization and Globalization, as a process directed toward influence over the world and therefore domination.
As I noted before US exercise several types of hegemony: economic, military, cultural, political, and ecological. ... 45) It will be reasonable to say that American hegemony started as an economic one through promotion of American economic institutions such as IMF, World Bank, GATT (developed into WTO in 1992) and economic aid packages such as Marshal plan. Despite it is argued that the help and that institutions was designed as a truly reconstructive bodies they really promoted American influence around the world through dollar domination policy and indebting third world countries through development loans. ... The rest of the free world relies upon the American economy to a much greater extent than the American economy depends upon it. Indeed, the rest of the free world could not live without the American economy. (Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1968) The passage clearly shows that whole US economy and its international system was constructed as a system of one-side dependence that makes other countries rather susceptible to shifts and crisis in American economy, that is definitely bad for other countries. ... US states definitely dominate the organization and use double standard system: makes other states to abide by rules of WTO but subsidize domestic agriculture and establish high non-tariff and tariff barriers for foreign goods.
Approximate Word count = 3314
Approximate Pages = 13.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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