Leading from Behind – American Exceptionalism and President Obama’s Post-American Vision of Hegemony

Löfflmann, Georg

doi:10.1080/14650045.2015.1017633

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“…In accordance with this idea, American global and regional leadership should be reformatted and aimed not at domination, but at international cooperation, which is reflected in such ideas as "burden-sharing" and "leading from behind". "Post-American exceptionalism" was supposed to help the United States get closer to its allies and reduce the need to intervene in conflicts in the international arena through military and political means [3].…”

Section: Conceptual Background Of the Us Approach To Changing The Macro-regional Order In The Indo-pacificmentioning

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Ideological and Conceptual Content of the US Approach to Structuring the Indo-Pacific Macroregion

Dubrovskiy¹,

Thanh²

2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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The article is devoted to the ideological content of the American approach to the restructuring of the Indo-Pacific region. Currently, the interconnectedness of the problems of international regional relations in Asia, as well as the strategic competition between the United States and China for leadership in this region, have led to the formation of the Indo-Pacific macroregion. The authors focus on the constructivist interpretation of macroregional transformations, which increases the importance of studying the ideological and conceptual background of the policy of the state claiming leadership. The article analyzes the main concepts of the US administration since the 2010s. The focus is on the "rules-based order" doctrine, which sets the tone for America's «Free and Open Indo-Pacific» strategy. The authors come to the conclusion that the ideological and conceptual content of the American strategy has not undergone significant changes over the past decade.

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Section: Conceptual Background Of the Us Approach To Changing The Macro-regional Order In The Indo-pacificmentioning

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Ideological and Conceptual Content of the US Approach to Structuring the Indo-Pacific Macroregion

Dubrovskiy¹,

Thanh²

2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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“…This work broadens out from the predominantly Hollywood- and United States-centred work that dominated even ten years ago to analyse public discourses in diverse geographical and historical settings (e.g. Löfflmann, 2015; Ouelette and Weiss, 2015; Schlosser, 2017; Tyner, 2015).…”

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Political geography II: Institutions

Kuus

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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Modern power is bureaucratized power, institutionalized formally through governmental and non-governmental structures and informally through unwritten social conventions. This report reviews recent political geographic work on the institutional arrangements that enable and constrain all political practice. Institutions here refer to organizations as well as looser semi-institutionalized patterns in public and private life. The report will first examine the scholarship on formal organizations and it will then review the research on professional fields and popular culture. The conclusion highlights the transnationalization and neoliberalization of institutions as a theme that runs through much of contemporary political geography.

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“…Although primacy is both a condition and a strategic orientation, our interest is mainly on the latter, insofar as the following analysis investigates the role of remote warfare in the retooling of the US's coercive capabilities following the Iraq War. This period follows shifts in the domestic politics of interventionism amidst general concerns over the strategic implications of American decline (Acharya 2018;Löfflmann 2015;Mabee 2013, 5-6;Quinn 2011).…”

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“…From a political economy perspective, the maintenance of American primacy has been contingent on policing subversive social forces 'from below', including groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, which threaten the reproduction of 'open doors' and 'closed frontiers' (that is, capitalist markets governed and protected by the system of sovereign, territorial states) in strategically important regions (Authors, in press;Blakeley 2018;Colas, 2008). Additionally, primacy's relational features mean it all but requires the leading actor to persistently protect its advantageous position visà-vis state rivals, even if its power-position grows more precarious (Acharya 2018, 2-3;Löfflmann 2015). As Agnew explains, '[p]rimacy depends in equal parts on successful competition and on subsequent recognition of that success by other states ' (2003, 67).…”

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