Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of trying to encourage extended hostilities in Ukraine as part of what he described Tuesday as Washington's alleged efforts to maintain its ...

In an important article in Foreign Affairs, Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Eric Labs, a naval expert at the Congressional Budget Office, warn U.S.

More than 10 years ago, the columnist Charles Krauthammer asserted that American “decline is a choice,” and argued tendentiously that Barack Obama had chosen it. Yet looking back over the last decade, ...

With the world increasingly awakening from the spell of US hegemony, the US is isolating itself more and more in the international community. Such a trend has apparently worried some US political ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union began nearly two decades of American unipolarity. During that time, U.S. leadership pursued a strategy of what international relations scholars call liberal hegemony.

Ice on the Guyot glacier melting due to climate change in Icy Bay, Alaska. (Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top ...

Hegemony' describes the dominance of one social group or class in a society. This control can be exercised subtly rather than forcefully through cultural means and economic power, and can rest on a ...