The objective of this paper is to analyze the current correlation of forces between China and the United States to verify whether this distribution of power corresponds to the current hegemonic order. Starting from the concept of interstate hegemony and …

China in 1980 had an income per head of about 300 dollars, the US had 29,863.02 dollars. Forty years later, China is a world leader on par with the US, has a dynamic high tech industry, and the largest middle …

Beyond the US-China watershed and supposedly polar state ideologies (liberal and pro-free- market in the US and dominated by state planning in China), this article delves into the shared traits of these powerful states. The US -at least since the …

The hegemony of the United States is undergoing a process of structural weakness. The 1970s represented an exceptional economic period in the crisis-reconfiguration of the Western economic system. The restructuring of the world-system under the project of neoliberal globalization, the …

This conference paper is a follow up to American Trade Deficits and the Unidirectionality Error, (Austin, 2019) which explained that main-stream economists have badly misunderstood or misrepresented the cause of U.S. trade deficits. For over 15 years, the United States …