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Titill: 
  • Titill er á ensku Able and Willing? does the USA's action during the 2008 crisis conform to hegemonic stability theory?
Námsstig: 
  • Bakkalár
Útdráttur: 
  • Útdráttur er á ensku

    In this paper I examine how the United States of America has conformed to hegemonic
    stability theory and whether it contunes to do so. The theory predicts that the hegemon
    will establish multilateral institutions serving its own interest but at the same time
    sacrificing resources to maintain them. I survey and establish how the theory manages to
    describe previous U.S. behaviour and the international trading regimes that it either failed
    to create in the Great Depression and sucessfully did after the World War Two. I take a
    look at the the position the U.S. is in now vis-à-vis the trading regime it established in the
    form of the WTO. My conclusion is that the U.S. had enjoyed hegemon status for a good
    reason but it no longer has near unilateral control over the worlds multilateral trading
    regime as is evident by the difficulty to negotiate the Doha round to a close, the
    associated trading shocks unmitigated by the U.S. and its own retreat into bilateral
    agreements and stiffer trade laws. The hegemonic decline seems to match the theory‘s
    prediction of fading multilateral interest.

Samþykkt: 
  • 13.9.2011
URI: 
  • http://hdl.handle.net/1946/10045


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