During The Cold War U.s. Hegemony Strategy. Transformation

This dissertation examines the change of hegemony strategy and a new hegemony system of the United States and how they influence East Asia.Currently, international situation makes the United States difficult to maintain the hegemony based on the power which the United States has continuously kept on. I define the hegemony based on the power as soft hegemony.If the United States maintains that hegemony, it will cause a serious damage to itself. Currently not only relative military power but soft power has been significantly decreased by and large. In this situation, an American president Obama with the slogan of "Change" insisted America should recover its status and power. It insists "soft hegemony" is US's plan to reorganize world system and recover US's power.There are three reasons of why the status of the United States has been degraded. Firstly, it's the decline of economy, politics, and military power. With this hegemony decline, US's hegemony cannot guarantee continuous profit to its country.Secondly, new countries such as China and India emerge as a powerful country. If the United States maintains already existing soft hegemony, it becomes manifest that a hegemony dispute between new emerging forces will arise.Thirdly, as the United States power has been declined, the fear that the United States would not keep its hegemony changed the form of hegemony. This is going to be explained in the chapter two.In sum, there are three main points in the United States'new hegemony strategy, a soft hegemony. Most of all, it is an economic leading. That is, the principal profit the hegemony brings is an economic development. Currently, the United States'concern of new emerging forces such as China and India is very large. In the new international system, the Unites States tries to keep its leading status in an international economy with using dollar, which is an international monetary.Second, the United States tries to maintain a superior power in the military strength. The US military will continuously hold a dominant position.Last main point of a soft hegemony is a political tactic. This is the most significant instrument that a soft hegemony possesses. In East Asia, the United States is incorporating China into the regime that US reorganized.This analysis leads to understand that how the United States approaches to Korean Peninsula policy and brings up North Korea issue. Chapter six analyzes two countries in Korean Peninsula and US's hegemony strategy in the East Asia.