| ID | 160481 |
| Title Proper | Hegemony, Inequality, and the Quest for Primacy |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Nikhil Kalyanpur ; Kalyanpur, Nikhil |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | How does maintaining international primacy affect a hegemon's domestic political economy? Debates on hierarchy, retrenchment, and structural power in the global economy are dominating international relations, yet scholars pay limited attention to the second-image reversed consequences of America's global role. The three books under review begin to correct this deficit. Combining their insights uncovers the effects of power politics on an area of substantial public and academic interest: economic inequality. While rising inequality is surely a multicausal outcome, research across the social sciences pinpoints technological change and the financialization of the American economy as fundamental drivers of the recent “redistribution.” These two shifts are generally treated as exogenous shocks in our models; the causal logics of the works under review illustrate that hegemony is the underlying, endogenous force. The analysis indicates a need for political scientists to study the interaction of international and domestic politics as a dynamic process, which would be bolstered by borrowing historical institutionalism's analytic toolkit. Investigating feedback loops and sequencing across both levels of analysis and across issue areas that are currently studied in isolation indicates an agenda that will better integrate security and political economy scholarship. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Global security Studies Vol. 3, No.3; Jul 2018: p.371–384 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Global security Studies Vol: 3 No 3 |
| Key Words | Technological innovation ; Inequality ; Historical Institutionalism ; American Hegemony ; Financialization ; Political Economy Of Security |