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Defining the contemporary international structure as unipolar has become a standard assertion for nearly all scholars in international relations.
Defining the contemporary international structure as unipolar has become a standard assertion for nearly all scholars in international relations. Nonetheless, there has been no in depth analysis of how the hegemon behaves in a unipolar world. This talk investigates the importance of power maximization strategies in a unipolar world. The speaker will address a set of fundamental questions: How does the unipolar world structure affect the hegemon and provide it with incentives to act in different ways? Which are the strategies that the hegemon will adopt in order to promote its national interest? Will the hegemon constantly strive to maximize its power or will it choose to restrain itself? In other words, what effect does the unipolar distribution of power have on the behavior of the hegemon, particularly in its power seeking strategies? By focusing on the cases of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) and the War in Iraq, the speaker will demonstrate that the hegemon, in a unipolar world, pursues power maximizing strategies and that the underlying logic is global hegemony.
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