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Explain the three types of US hegemony and give examples for each.

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(i) GO Hegemony as Hard Power: 

(a) This hegemony signifies military status of America to be both absolute and relative. In absolute terms, it has military capabilities to reach any point on the Planet accurately and no other power today can remotely match them. 

(b) The US military dominance is based on both the higher military expenditure and on a qualitative gap i.e. technological know how. 

(ii) Hegemony as Structural Power: 

(a) It signifies ‘Economic Prospects’ of hegemon power to possess both the ability and the desire to establish certain norms for order and sustain global structure even including goods to be consumed by one person without reducing the amount of goods available for someone else. 

(b) A classical example is academic degree MBA (Masters in Business Administration) to presume business as a profession to be dependent upon skills that can be taught in a University which is uniquely American. 

(iii) Hegemony as Soft Power: 

(a) US Hegemony has its cultural dimensions also which implies class ascendancy in social, political and particularly ideological spheres to shape the behavior of competing and lesser powers.Here, the consent goes hand in and more effective than coercion. 

(b) For example, most of the dreams of individuals and societies across the globe, are dreams churned out by practices prevailing in twentieth century America. All these are about the capacity to manufacture consent.

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