Defining of word: Global hegemony

The Case of Linux : Global Challenger to Microsoft ’ s Hegemony ?

Microsoft’s global dominance in its markets is so pervasive that competitors are forced into niche markets. Downstream suppliers and customers, so it is popularly argued, have little choice but to keep building on the Microsoft platform. This is because the benefits of moving to alternative platforms must be weighed against exit costs. In other words, such a move would disrupt existing partner ...

The Quest for Hegemony Among Countries and Global Pollution

This paper builds on the assumption that countries behave in such a way as to improve, via their economic strength, the probability that they will attain the hegemonic position on the world stage. The quest for hegemony is modeled as a game, with countries being differentiated initially only by some endowment which yields a pollution free flow of income. A country’s level of pollution is assume...

Defining Global Supervenience

What does it mean that certain properties globally supervene on others? The paper criticises the now standard way of spelling out the notion in terms of 1-1 correlations between world-domains and proposes a modification that escapes the difficulties. The new definition can secure the additional benefit of resisting an argument to the effect that global supervenience is theoretically dispensable...

From ‘theories of Hegemony’ to ‘hegemony Analysis’ in International Relations

Defining and Acting on Global Health: The Case of Japan and the Refugee Crisis

What counts as global health? There has been limited discourse to date on the ways in which country-level contexts may shape positioning in global health agendas. By reviewing Japan’s response to the refugee crisis, we demonstrate a clash between rhetoric and action on global responsibility, and suggest that cultural and historical factors may be related to the ways of perceiving and acting upo...