POL327Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hegemony, News, Hard Power
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A perfect example of a hegemon having unilateral support for what it proposes. This coalition brings together even states where the usa has touchy relationships with, like russia where they have sanctions against each other. This suggests that russia is just meekly following the hegemon. The same can be said for china, where their relationships are not that great and it treats itself as the regional hegemon. They both are trying to counterbalance and create alternate institutions against the global hegemon to govern global dominance affairs. They have created both competitors to the global bank and the. We should be skeptical why china and russia are gladly joining in the coalition against isis. Maybe they are glad that the usa is pursuing policies that are self-defeating and that they want this to continue so they will not conflict with the usa"s foreign policy .
