US Hegemony in World Politics
With the Soviet Union gone, the United States stood alone at the centre of world affairs, the situation explored in NCERT Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 3. The chapter examines hegemony as hard military power seen in the Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq, as structural economic power exercised through institutions such as the World Bank and IMF, and as soft cultural power spread through media and ideas. It weighs the constraints on American power, India's engagement with Washington, and whether unipolarity can last.
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