O Mito da crise de hegemonia e a formação do poder global estadunidense

Abstract

This article aims to assess the limits of the debate on the crisis of hegemony in the United States in the 1970s. We raise the thesis that the crisis of this decade did not correspond to the supposed crisis of hegemony – despite the questions raised against it. We will argue that during the post-war period, the USA built the foundations of a global power that were consolidated during this and the following decade, through the foundation of the formatters parameters of the interstate system – security, currency/finance, production/technology. The crisis of the decade corresponds, therefore, not to the crisis of hegemony, but to the antagonism between the limits of the autonomy of the National States and the rise of a transnational economic order at the apex of US global power.