RT Book, Section
T1 Construction and Projection of US Hegemony
A1 Pass, Jonathan
K1 Neo neo-Gramscian
K1 American hegemony
K1 Hegemonic project
K1 Form of state
K1 Social relations of production
K1 Fordism
K1 Keynesianism
K1 Grand Strategy
K1 National security state
K1 NSC-68
K1 Multilateral institutons
K1 US hegemony
AB The Neo neo-Gramscian (NNG) perspective adopted in this book understands world hegemony as having its origins in the global projection of social forces emanating from underlying social relations of production (SROP) embedded in a particular historical bloc, albeit always dialectically interacting with ‘international’ social forces, and in the context of a global capitalist system beset by uneven development. This chapter analyses how, against the background of looming post-war domestic over-production and huge inter-state wealth/power disparity, dominant social forces emergent from American capitalism mobilised around an anti-communist ‘hegemonic project’  (complete with ‘hegemonic apparatus’) aiming to launch a new global regime of accumulation facilitated/underwritten by US security arrangements. This required the restructuring of domestic/core countries’ SROP (Fordism) and the form of state (Keynesian), compatible with the needs of a mass consumption/mass production economy orientated towards Open-Door internationalism. Key here was the setting up of multilateral institutions (e.g. the UN, the Bretton Woods trio, the OEEC, NATO, etc.) in accordance with the third of Cox’s ‘categories of forces’ and Gramsci’s ‘second moment’. Yet, and reiterating a central tenet of NNG theory, American hegemony was never purely consensual. Whether it be disciplining the domestic/foreign subaltern classes or imposing dominance over core elites, coercion was omnipresent in Pax Americana, legitimised under the Cold War ‘Grand Strategy’ and embodied in Truman’s ‘national security state’, NSC-68, and the ‘empire of bases’ established around the world.
PB Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
SN 9780429459061
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22930
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22930
LA en
NO 'Construction and Projection of US Hegemony' en American Hegemony in the 21st  Century: A Neo Neo-Gramscian Perspective, Routledge, New York, 2019, pp.265
NO The funder of the Open Access version of this chapter is Universidad Pablo de Olavide.El financiador de la versión de acceso abierto de este capítulo es la Universidad Pablo de Olavide.
NO Derecho Público
DS RIO
RD May 9, 2026