ABSTRACT
How do we think about hegemony in the twenty-first century? This is the broad question I address in this chapter. My main aim is to reflect on patterns for thinking about power in the global setting in this opening stage of the new century. My arguments develop from the major themes that have threaded through the earlier chapters, perhaps most importantly that questions of continuity are equally important as questions of discontinuity. In other words, theories and facts of the recent past should feed into our thinking about the future as much as new perspectives and developments.
