¿El último imperio?: notas sobre la política exterior estadounidense y el estudio de las relaciones internacionales

Abstract

The article is about the phenomenon of the hegemonic succession of the powers from the study of American policy in international relations. Through the study of different periods of the history of the United States, the author makes a diagnostic of the elements that allowed this country the consolidation as a power not only in the region but in the international level. He points out that at the beginning of the last century, the United States changed to bean ascending power to an unknown growth rhythm that no other country has experienced before. After World War II nobody was able to dispute its supremacy. Nevertheless, after 1991, the apparent American unipolarity was uncertain and multiplied speculations on the possibility to succeed in the controversy to head the international hegemony by the most named: European Union, Russia, China or India. The problem is based on focusing possibilities on the hegemonic succession or either accepting the impossibility of succession within a multipolar world.