Saïda Bédar, Clobalization and the Reproductionof U.S. Hegemony, October 2019
The United States today appears to enjoy an uncontested hegemonic position within a new global order that is far from being “multipolar.” However, the modalities of competition among global power-actors could, in the long run, challenge this hegemony—particularly through what might be described as a race for asymmetric superiority. Across all domains, competition is increasingly characterized by an adaptation of ways and means based on preemptive postures—sometimes operating outside the bounds of previously established international norms, such as open diplomacy grounded in public international law, arms control regimes, and the principle of non-interference. The escalation effects of preemption have triggered a race for asymmetric capabilities—marked by the pursuit of strategic and normative breakthroughs, as well as technological leaps that ensure influence and access to critical domains (air, land, sea, outer space, and cyberspace), while simultaneously denying such access to competitors and adversaries. This asymmetrization of state power strategies is, to a large extent, a consequence of globalization, which has fundamentally transformed modes of production and patterns of socio-spatial dominance.
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