POLI 341 Chapter Notes -Rent-Seeking, Bush Doctrine, Hegemony
Document Summary
Paradox unipolar moment, no serious challengers to american hegemony. Us has won a series of wars dating back to the gulf war, militarily very powerful. Us dominates the middle east as if it was an unprecedented threat to national security. Was a watershed or historical fulcrum that posed a clear security threat but not exactly a clear approach to the problem. Dynamics of domestic politics that allows for lobby groups to have a disproportionate amount of power neoconservatives are. Supported by right wing israeli circles and they extol the importance of american hegemony and the use of military force to spread liberal values. This according to the lobby, is the best way to achieve peace. It is important to note here that when hudson speaks of the neoconservative lobby, don"t think of them as if they were a group of elites have hijacked the american policymaking process.