Undermining American Hegemony

Rather than direct confrontation, this book argues that competition over the provision and consumption of global public and private goods is shaping the decline of the liberal international order.

Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Goods substitution and the logics of international order transformation Daniel H. Nexon, Alexander Cooley and Morten Skumsrud Andersen; 2. Goods substitution and counter-hegemonic strategies Alexander Cooley and Daniel H. Nexon; 3. International rankings as normative goods: hegemony and the quest for social status Bahar Rumelili and Ann Towns; 4. China and the Asian infrastructure investment bank: undermining hegemony through goods substitution? Julia Bader; 5. The silk road to goods substitution: central Asia and the rise of new post-western international orders Alexander Cooley; 6. Goods substitution in the USA's back yard: Colombia's diversification strategies under conditions of hierarchy Morten Skumsrud Andersen; 7. Goods substitution at high latitude: undermining hegemony from below in the north Atlantic Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Benjamin De Carvalho and Halvard Leira; 8. Reflections on the volume Ole Jacob Sending and Iver B. Neumann; Bibliography; Index.