Crisis of world hegemony and the speeding up of social history

Authors

  • Beverly Silver Arrighi Center For Global Studies
  • Corey Payne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54833/issn2764-104X.v1i1p26-43

Keywords:

Hegemonia, Crise, Protesto Social, Capitalismo

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between world hegemonies and social protest. Escalating global social protest, and the incapacity of ruling powers to address its root causes, are among the signs that we have entered a crisis of US hegemony and a period of deep systemic chaos. This systemic chaos is analogous to that which characterized the transitions from Dutch to British hegemony, and from British to US hegemony. Historically, the emergence of new hegemonies presupposed a rising power with the  capacity and vision to supply reformist solutions to revolutionary challenges. These system-level challenges have become wider and deeper from one transition to the next, leading to a “speeding up of social history”. Due to the ecological limits of capitalism and the changing balance of power between the global North and South, reformist solutions that (temporarily) worked in the past are no longer sufficient.

Author Biographies

Beverly Silver, Arrighi Center For Global Studies

Professora do Departamento de Sociologia da Johns Hopkins University e Diretora do Arrighi Center for Global Studies. Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award (2005) pela publicação de Forces of Labor; e Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World System Section, pela publicação de Chaos and Governance in the Modern World-System

Corey Payne

Sociology PHD (candidate) at Johns Hopkins University

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