Bye, Bye Hegemony

Good news! According to the New York Times Magazine, Gramsci is on the skids: American hegemony is a thing of the past.

For 2016, Parag Khanna predicts a trilateral system of world domination, split between
the states, China, and the EU, with the power of the US in continuous, steady decline; American 'soft power'works no longer, as foreign investment and even domestic pop music capital go outre-mer. So-called 'second world'--nation-states (Venezuela, Vietnam, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are examples) that, for Khanna, cannot simply be called 'Third World', and whose geopolitical positioning grants them considerable leverage--will come to dictate the world's balance of power for years to come. Chavez looms large in Khanna's article, in which the author also speaks of a 'new Arabism' among Middle Eastern states more concerned with distributing oil wealth locally rather than in American banks. This 'new Arabism', while having echoes of Nasser, seems unsurprisingly unconcerned about Palestine.