Abstract

VALDES-UGALDE, José Luis. Illiberal Hegemony. Norteamérica [online]. 2019, vol.14, n.2, pp.101-120.  Epub Sep 11, 2020. ISSN 2448-7228.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2019.2.402.

Historically, the United States has defined its international policy in the sphere of liberal internationalism. It is a space in which multilateralism and international institutions like the United Nations, created by Washington and its allies after World War II, would tend to create economic, political, and social arrangements that would provide certainty and equilibrium for global governance and at the same time contain the dangers to world peace that the West saw as posed by the Soviet bloc’s actions. The author argues here that with the Trump presidency, this tacit agreement has been eclipsed and U.S. foreign policy has lost its way, not only because of the racket caused among allies and opponents by its deranged, provocative narrative, but also because it has upset the pieces on the chess board where the United States had traditionally played out its foreign policy, including diplomatic advances that Obama -for better or worse- had achieved in the Middle East, Cuba, Europe, and Asia. In addition to the internal democratic crisis surrounding Trump’s anomalous election, Trump has eliminated the “liberal” nature of the principle of hegemony, so carefully maintained by Washington.

Keywords : democratic liberalism; illiberal hegemon; hegemony; liberal democracy; populism; sovereigntism; nationalism.

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