American Hegemony as a New “Center of Power”

The article discusses the problems of political domination of the United States as a global “center of power,” which is an intermediate condition between the empire and hegemony. The modern New Order in the form of globalization is the result of historical dynamics of territorial displacement of “centers of power.” This dynamics is methodologically revealed within the framework of the concept of “spaсе fixation.” American leadership is unique. For the first time in the history a project of totally unipolar world is implemented. At the base of the American project is the “enterprise-state” model. The “enterprise-state” model is intended to replace the European model of development in the form of a “nation-state.” The American model generates a new type of leadership, which embodies the synthesis of the functions of ideology and economy in the enterprise. Media enterprises are becoming the leading structures in the society. The peculiar figure of an intellectual-“commanager” appears. It combines two areas, of communication and of management. The worldwide hegemony is building its own infrastructure that is the “global information society,” which produces a new type of policy – “noopolitics,” or “war of knowledge,” “information war.” The leading principle of the new perception of hegemony is “global information domination.” It shifts the focus from material domination to hegemony in political culture and through political culture. It takes the form of a discourse of “moral leadership and superiority.” The “milestones’ changing” in the process of “spaсе fixation” has been starting now. It undermines the basis of American global superiority. New “centers of power” are emerging in different regions of the world. The status of the “centers of global development” is also claimed by China and Russia, which are in the midst of a geopolitical confrontation.

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