"In Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order, Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon develop a new, integrated approach to understanding the rise and decline of hegemonic orders. Their approach identifies three distinct ways in which the liberal international order is undergoing fundamental transformation. First, Russia and China have targeted the order, positioning themselves as revisionist powers by establishing alternative regional institutions and pushing counter-norms. Second, weaker states are hollowing out the order by seeking patronage and security partnership from nations outside of the order, such as Saudi Arabia and China. Even though they do not always seek to disrupt American hegemony, these new patron-client relationships lack the same liberal political and economic conditions as those involving the United States and its democratic allies. Third, a new series of transnational networks emphasizing illiberalism, nationalism, and right-wing values increasing challenges the anti-authoritarian, progressive transnational networks of the 1990s. These three pathways erode the primacy of the liberal international order from above, laterally, and from below. The Trump administration, with its "America First" doctrine, accelerates all three processes, critically lessening America's position as a world power.

The SETA Foundation at Washington DC is pleased to host a discussion with the authors Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon, moderated by Kilic B. Kanat."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2COywoganJg

On Monday, May 10, 2021 at 6:31:46 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
> "In Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order, Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon develop a new, integrated approach to understanding the rise and decline of hegemonic orders. Their approach identifies three distinct ways in which the liberal international order is undergoing fundamental transformation. First, Russia and China have targeted the order, positioning themselves as revisionist powers by establishing alternative regional institutions and pushing counter-norms. Second, weaker states are hollowing out the order by seeking patronage and security partnership from nations outside of the order, such as Saudi Arabia and China. Even though they do not always seek to disrupt American hegemony, these new patron-client relationships lack the same liberal political and economic conditions as those involving the United States and its democratic allies. Third, a new series of transnational networks emphasizing illiberalism, nationalism, and right-wing values increasing challenges the anti-authoritarian, progressive transnational networks of the 1990s. These three pathways erode the primacy of the liberal international order from above, laterally, and from below. The Trump administration, with its "America First" doctrine, accelerates all three processes, critically lessening America's position as a world power.
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> The SETA Foundation at Washington DC is pleased to host a discussion with the authors Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon, moderated by Kilic B. Kanat.."
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2COywoganJg
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Too much abuse and breach of the world's trust by the US. The global order has been weaponized by the US to serve purely America's purposes. It has become an American global order for American hegemony. The world wants out..

Wakalukong

On Sunday, May 9, 2021 at 6:31:46 PM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
> "In Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order, Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon develop a new, integrated approach to understanding the rise and decline of hegemonic orders. Their approach identifies three distinct ways in which the liberal international order is undergoing fundamental transformation. First, Russia and China have targeted the order, positioning themselves as revisionist powers by establishing alternative regional institutions and pushing counter-norms. Second, weaker states are hollowing out the order by seeking patronage and security partnership from nations outside of the order, such as Saudi Arabia and China. Even though they do not always seek to disrupt American hegemony, these new patron-client relationships lack the same liberal political and economic conditions as those involving the United States and its democratic allies. Third, a new series of transnational networks emphasizing illiberalism, nationalism, and right-wing values increasing challenges the anti-authoritarian, progressive transnational networks of the 1990s. These three pathways erode the primacy of the liberal international order from above, laterally, and from below. The Trump administration, with its "America First" doctrine, accelerates all three processes, critically lessening America's position as a world power.
>
> The SETA Foundation at Washington DC is pleased to host a discussion with the authors Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon, moderated by Kilic B. Kanat.."
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2COywoganJg

The whole presentation is about 66 minutes including 25 minutes of presentation by the authors and a Q&A segment.
A quick and simplified look.
At about 2:59 Slide 2/17

US global domination is over.
It is not coming back.
Trump is a symptom and an accelerant.

At about 8:11 Slide 7/17 Three factors contribute to form the foundation of US hegemony.
American and Western patronage monopoly.
Implosion of Alternative Great Power Orders.
Liberal (Pro-order) Transnational movements and activities.

Begins at about 17:11, the direction of the arrow of silde 7/17 reverse direction.
New Good Providers (e.g. China)
Alternative Ordering (e.g. Authoritative Capitalism)
Counter-Order Movement (e.g. right wing populism)