Undermining American Hegemony

Morten Skumsrud Andersen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), in the Research group on Global order and Diplomacy. Andersen has published on theoretical and empirical topics of International Relations, including the history of empires and hierarchy in international politics, conceptual history, NGOs, and practice theory. Alexander Cooley is the Claire Tow Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and Director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute (2016–present). Cooley is the author and/or editor of seven academic books, serves on several international advisory boards, and has testified for the United States Congress and Helsinki Commission. Daniel H. Nexon is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author or editor of three other books and the former lead editor of International Studies Quarterly. During 2009–2010 he worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy) in the Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia office. In 2016 he was one of two coordinators for a group of volunteers that worked on foreign policy issues for the Bernie Sanders campaign, and he remains active in debates about progressive foreign policy.

• Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Goods substitution and the logics of international order transformation Daniel H. Nexon, Alexander Cooley and Morten Skumsrud Andersen; 2. Goods substitution and counter-hegemonic strategies Alexander Cooley and Daniel H. Nexon; 3. International rankings as normative goods: hegemony and the quest for social status Bahar Rumelili and Ann Towns; 4. China and the Asian infrastructure investment bank: undermining hegemony through goods substitution? Julia Bader; 5. The silk road to goods substitution: central Asia and the rise of new post-western international orders Alexander Cooley; 6. Goods substitution in the USA's back yard: Colombia's diversification strategies under conditions of hierarchy Morten Skumsrud Andersen; 7. Goods substitution at high latitude: undermining hegemony from below in the north Atlantic Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Benjamin De Carvalho and Halvard Leira; 8. Reflections on the volume Ole Jacob Sending and Iver B. Neumann; Bibliography; Index.

'What awaits us after American hegemony? Undermining Hegemony helps bring the bleary future into focus. Surrounding the subject to subdue it, the contributors of this volume show how ebbing U.S. influence shifts allegiances, alters autonomy, affects identities, and revises norms. But the arguments go beyond current events to enduring patterns. Anyone looking to understand how states large and small create international order should start with this book. Morton Skumsrud Andersen, Alexander Cooley, and Daniel Nexon have assembled a comprehensive work that is timely and timeless.' Joseph M. Parent, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame