Comments on: The End of American Ascendancy http://atlanticsentinel.com/2009/12/the-end-of-american-ascendancy/ Transatlantic Perspective Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:10:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Atlantic Sentinel | The Stagnant Hegemon http://atlanticsentinel.com/2009/12/the-end-of-american-ascendancy/comment-page-1/#comment-1782 Atlantic Sentinel | The Stagnant Hegemon Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:21:58 +0000 http://atlanticsentinel.com/?p=586#comment-1782 [...] and political disfunction, other greater powers, China especially, are on the rise. Is the end of American ascendancy [...] [...] and political disfunction, other greater powers, China especially, are on the rise. Is the end of American ascendancy [...]

]]> By: Atlantic Sentinel | Obama the Jeffersonian http://atlanticsentinel.com/2009/12/the-end-of-american-ascendancy/comment-page-1/#comment-867 Atlantic Sentinel | Obama the Jeffersonian Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:37:31 +0000 http://atlanticsentinel.com/?p=586#comment-867 [...] President Obama’s foreign policy so far seems to be its reception. Conservatives dread the end of American ascendency and wonder out loud whether Obama is projecting weakness while the Europeans are supposedly upset [...] [...] President Obama’s foreign policy so far seems to be its reception. Conservatives dread the end of American ascendency and wonder out loud whether Obama is projecting weakness while the Europeans are supposedly upset [...]

]]> By: Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog http://atlanticsentinel.com/2009/12/the-end-of-american-ascendancy/comment-page-1/#comment-347 Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:24:40 +0000 http://atlanticsentinel.com/?p=586#comment-347 <strong>Tom around the web...</strong> + Anthony Clark Arend embedded the TED video + So did Wally Carter. + So did Libertas and Latte. + TechH2o.com. + dsawyer linked it. + Webster Tarpley Blog embedded the NDU PNM video. + zenpundit linked Neocons are Alive...... Tom around the web…

+ Anthony Clark Arend embedded the TED video + So did Wally Carter. + So did Libertas and Latte. + TechH2o.com. + dsawyer linked it. + Webster Tarpley Blog embedded the NDU PNM video. + zenpundit linked Neocons are Alive……

]]> By: American Leadership and Hegemony – Decline or Adaptation? | InfinitePrep http://atlanticsentinel.com/2009/12/the-end-of-american-ascendancy/comment-page-1/#comment-268 American Leadership and Hegemony – Decline or Adaptation? | InfinitePrep Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:04:41 +0000 http://atlanticsentinel.com/?p=586#comment-268 [...] to the Chinese simply because Beijing holds the pink slip on our national economy.What do you think of this debate? Is US leadership poised for a renaissance, or have we already reached a point of no return. [...] [...] to the Chinese simply because Beijing holds the pink slip on our national economy.What do you think of this debate? Is US leadership poised for a renaissance, or have we already reached a point of no return. [...]

]]> By: James http://atlanticsentinel.com/2009/12/the-end-of-american-ascendancy/comment-page-1/#comment-213 James Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:00:24 +0000 http://atlanticsentinel.com/?p=586#comment-213 Whilst decline may be seen as a choice by the hawks, and as imminent by others I’d flip the whole thing on its head and say Hegemony isn’t. Barnett says that Economic and cultural supremacy is well assured and there’s no need to bother with ‘hegemony’ but surely that’s all part and parcel of what hegemony IS. Passive, un-intentional soft power is generated off the back of hard-power; concerted effort to keep US on top. The two could be said to be symbiotic. However without the US safe-guarding the status-quo which it brought into being, that status-quo would not last. Other practices and institutions, pushed by soft-power would overtake the US position if it did not sure it up. In other words the US uni-polar position is very strong, even now, in all areas. But that state of affairs isn’t autonomous. Barnett dismisses the need to do anything and the hawks are perhaps too quick to presume this is the end and some-kind of stepping up need be taken. I don’t think the US will lose its strategic advantage by that much any time soon. Whilst decline may be seen as a choice by the hawks, and as imminent by others I’d flip the whole thing on its head and say Hegemony isn’t. Barnett says that Economic and cultural supremacy is well assured and there’s no need to bother with ‘hegemony’ but surely that’s all part and parcel of what hegemony IS. Passive, un-intentional soft power is generated off the back of hard-power; concerted effort to keep US on top. The two could be said to be symbiotic. However without the US safe-guarding the status-quo which it brought into being, that status-quo would not last. Other practices and institutions, pushed by soft-power would overtake the US position if it did not sure it up. In other words the US uni-polar position is very strong, even now, in all areas. But that state of affairs isn’t autonomous. Barnett dismisses the need to do anything and the hawks are perhaps too quick to presume this is the end and some-kind of stepping up need be taken. I don’t think the US will lose its strategic advantage by that much any time soon.

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