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The Impasses of U.S. Hegemony

Perspectives for the Twenty-first Century

Laboratory of Public Policy, State University of Rio de Janeiro

A prospective long-term model of U.S. hegemony based on the systemic cycles proposed by the Fernand Braudel Center group (mainly Giovanni Arrighi), the cycles of Nicolai Kondratieff, and the notion of civilizational crisis based on Radovan Richta’s work on the techno-scientific revolution allows us to view the U.S. crisis of hegemony as one of the most important events in the contemporary world. It points to the possibility of constructing a complex of antioligarchic forces that, complemented by the emergence of cultural and political elements that would support peace-centered world mobilization, would unite periphery and center, East and West, in the pursuit of a planetary civilization.

Key Words: United States • hegemony • systemic cycles • Kondratieff cycles • civilizational crisis

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