"An excellent book, Hegemony mounts an effective and scholarly challenge to a great deal of rather simplistic recent work on American empire. Agnew's arguments are convincing, and interesting. Perhaps the most compelling is his attempt to show that hegemony is not simply a national project, as most of the empire genre he criticizes argues, but a global project inextricably implicated with the ways in which capitalist globalization works."—Leslie Sklair, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
"This innovative, lucid study of 'new geographies of power' can and should be read by a wide audience.... Essential."—Choice