Conceptualizing the Nexus of ＂Interdependent Hegemony＂ between the Existing and the Emerging World Orders

作     者：Xing Li 

作者机构：Department of Culture and Global Studies Aalborg University K.roghstraede 3 Room 5-2359220 Aalborg Denmark 

出 版 物：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》 (复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第7卷第3期

页      面：343-362页

学科分类：12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 08[工学] 081303[工学-城市规划与设计(含：风景园林规划与设计）] 082303[工学-交通运输规划与管理] 0813[工学-建筑学] 082302[工学-交通信息工程及控制] 0833[工学-城乡规划学] 083302[工学-城乡规划与设计] 0823[工学-交通运输工程] 

主　　题：World order The BRICS Emerging power Inter dependent hegemony Structural power 

摘      要：The paper intends to contribute a framework of conceptualizing the emerging world order through interpreting the transformation of international political economy in an era of the rise of the BRICS and the ＂second world.＂ It theorizes the dialectical nexus between the rise of the BRICs and the existing world order as an interdependent dynamic process of mutual challenge, mutual constraint, and mutual accommodation. One of the conceptual tools the paper applies is the notion of interdependent hegemony. The notion is seen as an important tool for conceptualizing and analyzing international relations and international political economy in the current era. The application of ＂interdependent hegemony＂ helps to explain that to what extent the BRICS can be identified as a unified alliance, a historical bloc, and to what extent they are generating functional or structural challenges to the existing international order. Likewise, it also helps to determine to what extent the hegemony of the existing order is still able to keep its resilient capacities and its structural powers and able to neutralize challenges from the emerging powers. The conclusion of the paper posits that the world is experiencing ＂interdependent hegemony＂ in the transition from the existing order to the emerging order.