Hegemonic Transition

Florian Böller is Professor of International Relations at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Previously, he taught at Heidelberg University and held fellowships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University. His research on US foreign policy has appeared in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, European Political Science Review, Contemporary Security Policy, and other journals.Welf Werner is Professor of American Studies at Heidelberg University, Germany, and director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. He was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University and a research fellow at Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University. His research and teaching focus on US domestic and foreign economic policies.

• Introduction: Hegemony, Contestation and Transition.- Externalizing the Costs of Leadership: The Impact of Changing State-Societal Relations on US Hegemony.- Broken Social Contract: The Domestic Roots of US Hegemonic Decline in the World.- Exit from US Leadership: Global Trade Policy and Trump’s “America First” Doctrine.- Decay of US Economic Hegemony? Intellectual Property Rights, Dollar Centrality, and US Geo-economic Power.- Leading by Example or Extortion? US Leadership Role Transition and the Non-Proliferation Regime.- The End of NATO as We Know It: Reconfiguring Transatlantic Security Relations.-  Institutional Contestation: The Trump Administration and International Organizations.- Spoiler State: Russia’s Status Seeking and Hegemonic Ambitions.- Contested Cyberspace: China’s Increasing Role and Power in Technology Governance.- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: India’s Response to the Hegemonic Decline of the West.- Dual Hegemony: Brazil between the United States and China.- Fast-track towards a Hegemonic Transition: Corona and the Decline of US Hegemony.- Conclusion.