Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has enjoyed a condition of global preponderance. Making use of the Critical Theory School, offer a succinct analysis of the factors that may help sustain this condition, as well as those other factors that may help precipitate its demise. 

USE FOLLOWING SOURCES 

• Robert W. Cox, “Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method,” Millennium, Vol. 12, No. 2 (June 1983), pp. 162–175.
• Robert W. Cox, “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory,” in Neorealism and its Critics, ed. by Robert O. Keohane (Columbia University Press, 1986), pp. 204–254.

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