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The emergence of the United States after World War II and following the Cold War as a hyper-power, while conditioning the production of social knowledge, has allowed it to proclaim the triumph of capital accumulation. Notes from San Juan demonstrate that, under the complex set of rules, practices, and institutions of neoliberal globalization, national borders have diminished and national sovereignty has been subordinated to external institutions supervising the implementation of these rules, e.g., structural adjustment programs, privatization of public assets and services, trade liberalization, among others, all leading to uneven global development and inequality just as the US empire has sought to normalize its hegemony and assert its sovereignty against other states through a free hand in inflicting violence directly or through vassal states and terrorist formations, and the delegitimation of self-determining anti-imperialist resistance to it. Invoking Arif Dirlik, San Juan chastises postcolonialism for its “aura” (akin to Dirlik’s term, “allure”) of leftism while rejecting historical materialism, and for its imperialist collaborationism.
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Bauzon, K.E. (2019). The Cold War and the Post-Cold War Hegemony. In: Capitalism, The American Empire, and Neoliberal Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9080-8_6
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