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U.S. Political Culture and Hegemony

Center for Studies on the United States, University of Havana

Despite certain changes in character and direction, the political culture that is now being consolidated in the United States in an effort to regain the country’s lost hegemony and legitimize domestic policy is reproducing the themes and tools of the cold war. Terrorism has come to occupy the place that international communism once held. The repressive, intolerant, and violent atmosphere that characterized the cold war has resur-faced today as the new political culture is used to legitimize the use of violence both at home and abroad.

Key Words: Hegemony • political culture • national security • United States • imperialism

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