SP 1.2 - Hegemony

Question 1

What is Hegemony?

Answer 1

The political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over others.

Question 2

What is a Kuznet cycle?

Answer 2

Kuznets connected waves with demographic processes, in particular with immigrant inflows/outflows and the changes in construction intensity that they caused, that is why he denoted them as “demographic” or “building” cycles/swings. Kuznets swings have been also interpreted as infrastructural investment cycles.

Question 3

What is the neoliberal interpretation of ‘Hegemony’?

Answer 3

Neoliberals argue that the hegemon wishes to maintain its dominant position without paying enforcement costs, so it creates a system in which it can credibly limit the returns to power (loser doesn’t lose all) and credibly commit to neither dominate nor abandon them.

Question 4

What is the classical liberal interpretation of ‘Hegemony’?

Answer 4

It is motivated by ‘enlightened self-interest’; the hegemon takes on the costs because it is good for all actors, thereby creating stability in the system, which is also in the interests of all actors.

Question 5

What are the different types of Hegemony?

Answer 5

• Political
• Economic
• Military
• Cultural

Question 6

Can China rise as a new Hegemon?

Answer 6

Open question, was running out of ideas.