Exit from Hegemony

Alexander Cooley is Director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute for the study of Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe and the Claire Tow Professor of Political Science at Barnard College of Columbia University. His books include Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia (Oxford), Ranking the World: Grading States as a Tool of Global Governance, and Dictators without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia. In addition to his academic work, Professor Cooley serves on a range of international advisory bodies and working groups engaged with the region and has testified for Congressional committees on Eurasian issues.Daniel Nexon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has held fellowships from Stanford University's Center for International Security, Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. From 2009-2010, he was aCouncil on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in the US Department of Defense. In 2016, he helped coordinate the unofficial foreign-policy group for the Bernie Sanders campaign, and he remains active in efforts to forge progressive foreign policy principles. He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change. He founded, and used to blog, at The Duck of Minerva. He currently blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.

• List of Tables and FiguresForewordChapter 1 - Introduction: This Time is DifferentChapter 2 - The American Hegemonic System in Theoretical and Historical PerspectiveChapter 3 - How Hegemonic Orders UnravelChapter 4 - Exit from Above: Russia and China Seek to Transform the International OrderChapter 5 - Exit from Below: Regime Security, Exit Options and the Rise of New External PatronsChapter 6 - Exit from Within: Right-Wing Transnationalism as Counter-Order MovementsChapter 7 - Exit Made in America: The Trump PresidencyChapter 8 - Conclusions: Heading for the ExitApppendixIndex

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