American Hegemony Looks Different from Eastern Europe: (or, Twenty Reasons why we Support the U.S.)

A Model of US Hegemony

The obvious fact of US global hegemony has taken quite some time to enter public awareness. It is frequently described now, sometimes quite critically, sometimes celebrated as a great blessing to the world – e.g. in Thomas L. Freedman’s The Lexus and the Olive Tree. Understanding Globalisation (1999). Even the notion of an American Empire has come into use, the term often being used in a compla...

Why Isn’t Europe Growing As Fast As the US?1

1 This paper borrows unrestrainedly from Aghion-Howitt's (2006) Schumpeter Lecture.

The reasons so many people support physician-assisted suicide--and why these reasons are not convincing.

The Asian Nuclear Medicine Board; Why Do We Need It?

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A Qualitative Content Analysis of US Foreign Policy towards Cuba during Barack Obama’s Administration: Hegemony or Leadership?

The United States’ relations with Cuba are rooted in the US intervention in the process of Cuba’s independence from Spain in the 1890s. The US preserved its interest-based approach towards Cuba during the first half of the 20th century, which culminated in the Cuba’s counter-hegemonic revolution in 1959. This revolution led to more than fifty years of hostility between two countries, which took...