Georgia

This is of interest only to international-relations theorists and fellow travelers.

A long-standing claims about hegemonic orders is that they are normative ones: that a dominant power uses a wide variety of power resources to create a set of international rules and regimes conducive to its ideological and material interests. After World War II the United States worked actively to promote norms and institutions consistent with a broadly "liberal internationalist" environment, albeit ones refracted through the prism of Cold War competition. After the Cold War the United States enlarged the order, however unevenly, and during the Bush Administration it sought, but generally failed, to recast that order along neoconservative lines.

The two most importnat "mainstream" pieces to focus on the normative dimensions of hegemonic orders are probably John Ruggie's "International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order" and G. John Ikenberry's and Charles Kupchan's "Socialization and Hegemonic Power."

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