ABOUT THIS BOOK

In the post-cold war era, the United States has risen to a position of unprecedented dominance in the world and has often pursued a primarily unilateral approach to international policy issues. Hegemony Constrained examines how nations, ethnic and religious groups, and international organizations cope with American hegemony. The chapters reveal the various ways in which foreign actors attempt and sometimes succeed in keeping official Washington from achieving its preferred outcomes.
An international group of contributors considers how and why a variety of foreigners act strategically to avoid, delay, or change American policy with respect to a broad range of issues in world affairs. Individual chapters analyze the Kurds and Shia in Iraq; the governments of China, Japan, Turkey, and Germany; the G-7; liberalizing the international economy; coping with global warming; regulating harmful tax competition; controlling missile proliferation; limiting public health damage from tobacco; and international public opinion bearing on the politics of responding to a hegemonic America.
By recognizing and illustrating moves that challenge American unilateralism, Hegemony Constrained provides a framework for understanding and anticipating the goals, motives, and means others in the world bring to their dealings with American hegemony in specific situations. Thus, it offers a corrective to naively optimistic unilateralism and naively optimistic multilateralism.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Davis B. Bobrow is professor (emeritus) of public and international affairs and political science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is coauthor of Defensive Internationalism, Policy Analysis by Design, and Understanding Foreign Policy Decisions. Bobrow has served as president of the International Studies Association and is a former member of the U.S. Defense Science Board.

REVIEWS

“Realists say states must balance or bandwagon to cope with a dominant power. Sophisticated observers of international relations-and Bobrow is certainly among them-know that there are a range of strategies open to such states. His book identifies these strategies, tells us when they are chosen, supports its claims with good evidence, and provides the most insightful analysis to date of relations between the U.S. and other powers.”
—Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College

“This volume seeks to explain why recent American foreign policy has so often been resisted in much of the world, not with the usual realist reference to 'balancing' behavior, but rather by the international response to specific U.S. policies pursued, often unilaterally, in distinct policy arenas. Opposition thus arises not to U.S. hegemony per se, but rather to the heavy-handed way in which U.S. 'leadership' is so often exercised. The authors argue for a varied and nuanced policy response by the U.S. to those states that appear to resist U.S. leadership, tailored to meet the needs of specific bilateral and multilateral relationships according to the particular nature of the policy arena at stake.”
—P. Terrence Hopmann, Brown University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Contents
List of Tables and Figures 000
1. Strategies beyond Followership 000
Davis B. Bobrow
2. Modes of Iraqi Response to American Occupation 000
Jeremy Pressman
3. The Reluctant Ally: German Domestic Politics and the War against Saddam Hussein 000
Siegmar Schmidt
4. Soft Deterrence, Passive Resistance: American Lenses, Chinese Lessons 000
Steve Chan
5. The United States and Turkey: Limiting Unilateralism 000
Ilter Turan
6. Resistance to Hegemony within the Core: Domestic Politics, Terrorism, and Policy Divergence within the G-7 000
Thomas J. Volgy, Kristin Kanthak, Derrick Frazier, and Robert Stewart Ingersoll
7. Thwarting U.S. Missile Defense from within the Missile Technology Control Regime 000
Dennis M. Gormley
8. Europa Riding the Hegemon? Transatlantic Climate Policy 000
Alexander Ochs and Detlef F. Sprinz
9. Developmental Opposition in International Trade Regimes: Regional Groupings and State and Civil Society Coalitions 000
Diana Tussie
10. U.S. Defection from the OECD "Harmful Tax Competition" Project: Rhetoric and Reality 000
Robert T. Kudrle
11. Saving the World from Big Tobacco: The Real Coalition of the Willing 000
Judith P. Wilkenfeld
12. International Public Opinion: Incentives and Options to Comply and Challenge 000
Davis B. Bobrow
13. The Implications of Constrained Hegemony 000
Davis B. Bobrow
Notes 000
References 000
List of Contributors 000
Index 000
List of Tables and Figures
Tables
1.1. An initial framework
5.1. Turkish choices
6.1. OLS regression equations for G-7 defection ratios with selected independent variables
8.1. Changes in GHG emissions for UNFCCC Annex 1 parties, 1990-2004
12.1. Scoring conventions
12.2. Terrorism, WMD, and Iraq
12.3. Appraisals of U.S. world impact
12.4. Broad appraisals of the United States and the Bush administration
12.5. Alternatives to U.S. predominance
12.6. Evaluations of the EU relative to the United States
12.7. EU foreign policy and security policy
12.8. How national publics view other countries, 2002-2005
12.9. Various countries' views of possible pariah states, 2003-2006
13.1. The initial framework revisited
Figures
6.1. Estimates of the U.S. share of great power military and economic capabilities, 1960-2002
6.2. Estimate of U.S. structural strength index, 1950-2003
6.3. Factor values for G-7 states for sessions 45-47 (1990-1992)
6.4. Factor values for G-7 states for sessions 52-54 (1997-1999)
6.5. Defection scores for the UN General Assembly as a whole and for G-7 states, 1975-2003
6.6. Defections by individual G-7 states from U.S. voting, 1975-2003

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