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Perspectives on Politics (2003), 1 : 123-126 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © 2003 by the American Political Science Association
doi:10.1017.S1537592703000100
Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jan 2004
 
Perspective on Politics (2003), 1:1:123-126 American Political Science Association
Copyright © 2003 by the American Political Science Association
doi:10.1017/S1537592703000100

PERSPECTIVES

How Amoral Is Hegemon?

Robert E. Goodin a1
a1 Professor of social and political theory and philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He can be reached at goodinb@coombs.anu.edu.au.

In the post–Cold War world, the last remaining superpower is almost hegemonic. Almost, but not quite. The United States cannot act entirely on its own. It needs—or thinks it needs, or pretends it needs—the support of at least a few other countries in almost anything it does. But it only needs a few, and many could serve equally well.


Footnotes

An earlier version of this article was presented to the International Sociological Association World Congress, Brisbane, in August 2002. The author is grateful for comments, then and later, from Mattei Dogan, Christina Fong, Gerry Mackie, Claus Offe, Wlodek Rabinowicz, Dave Schmidtz, Duncan Snidal, and this journal's editors and referees


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