Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)

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A really useful work using the concept of hegemony as theorised by Gramsci and others to analyse the current state of society and politics in (primarily) the UK and US and set out a future strategy for the left, broadly conceived. The first section builds a picture of the current state of things in the early twenty first century, and in particular how large finance and technology concerns built a world that suited their interests. The second section then theorises this using concepts including hegemony along with the theories of Deleuze and Guattari (which I'm aware of but not in any way familiar with) to build an understanding of how this power is constructed and has continued to be supported by political parties that win elections despite seemingly not being hugely popular in general. The final section then sets out a proposal for strategies that the left should pursue based largely on the principle of understanding what is pragmatically possible and creating the coalitions that will allow realistic goals to be achieved in practice. In engaging and accessible prose, Gilbert and Williams provide an astute political analysis of our current conjuncture...an important provocation for the left. Michael Hardt In the process of clarifying and updating the often misunderstood (and occasionally maligned) concept of hegemony, Gilbert and Williams also provide us with a valuable analysis of the "long 1990s": an account of its constitution, a diagnosis of its crisis and a map for its overcoming. Anyone committed to the latter must engage with this book. -- Rodrigo Nunes, author of Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organisation

The French Socialist politician Hubert Védrine in 1999 described the US as a hegemonic hyperpower, because of its unilateral military actions worldwide. [56] Allday, L. (no date) The British in T he Gulf: An Overview. Available at: https://www.qdl.qa/en/british-gulf-overview (Accessed: 23 December 2019). Carr, E. H. (1946) The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to The S tudy of International Relations. Macmillan London. This observation is important to Gilbert and Williams’s portrayal of hegemony as a process by which certain sets of interests coincide to determine society’s direction of travel. F. Dewitt Platt, Roy T. Matthews (1998). Western Humanities: Beginnings Through the Renaissance. Mayfield Pub Co. ISBN 1559349441.

Hegemony Now' appears in a post-Covid, post-Trump global political landscape. While our authors may have sensed radical tensions in the Russian fossil fuel energy market coming down the line, it's simply a fact that books unfold more slowly than international politics, making it easy to imagine that Gilbert and Williams are already busily writing new chapters for an expanded second edition.

Britain 1688 to 1792 (From the Glorious Revolution to the end of the Napoleonic Wars). Based on British textiles and command of the high seas. Keohane, Robert O. After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984. In 7th century India, Harsha, ruler of a large empire in northern India from AD606 to 647, brought most of the north under his hegemony. He preferred not to rule as a central government, but left "conquered kings on their thrones and contenting himself with tribute and homage." [38] To its credit, Biden’s new strategy does seek to rectify foreign-policy blunders of previous administrations. It recognizes transnational challenges like COVID-19 and climate change — a marked improvement, considering the Trump administration’s strategy document mentioned “disease” exactly three times and declined to mention climate change altogether. Biden’s document also pronounces a close to the “era of major military operations to remake other societies,” a welcome development to supporters of US military restraint.We warmly welcome you to join us on our Colchester campus, room NTC.2.04on Thursday 2 November 2023 at 1pm. Any society today – Britain included – needs more, not less, political solidarity. Complex global problems, from climate change and population movements down, require new alliances, radical new forms of cooperation that won’t happen unless more people feel confident in working together with those whose detailed opinions they may not share. Fractious local problems, like the Brexit aftermath, require more solidarity too. But what if the social landscape built by digital platforms is toxic for solidarity? Then we have a problem with the very preconditions of positive politics that needs fixing urgently. That said, this is an interesting analysis of both theory and strategy that makes good use of theory to build a realistic understanding of what the strategies and priorities of the modern left should be.

Hitchens, Christopher (2002). Why Orwell Matters. New York: Basic Books. pp. 86–87. ISBN 0-465-03049-1. The early 20th century, like the late 19th century, was characterized by multiple Great Powers but no global hegemon. World War I strengthened the United States and, to a lesser extent, Japan. Both of these states' governments pursued policies to expand their regional spheres of influence, the US in Latin America and Japan in East Asia. France, the UK, Italy, the Soviet Union and later Nazi Germany (1933–1945) all either maintained imperialist policies based on spheres of influence or attempted to conquer territory but none achieved the status of a global hegemonic power. [49] Kindleberger, C. P. (1978) Government and International Trade. International Finance Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University. Spain 1516 to 1659 (From the accession of Charles I of Spain to the Treaty of the Pyrenees). Based on the Spanish dominance of the European battlefields and the global exploration and colonization of the New World.Italian Trade Cities | Western Civilization". courses.lumenlearning.com . Retrieved 29 September 2021. Who holds the power in the twenty-first century and how can we distribute it from the 1% to the 99%% Zhiqun, Zhu (2006). US–China relations in the 21st century: power transition and peace. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-70208-9.