ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book seeks to rectify this shortcoming, rooting its conceptualisation of hegemony in an emergentist materialist philosophy of science. It analyses how, against the backdrop of uneven and combined development, manifested in a huge post-WWII wealth/power disparity between states, dominant social forces emergent from American capitalism mobilised behind a hegemonic project designed to expand global markets. The book highlights, the war on terror shared very similar national and international objectives with Reagan’s Second Cold War. It set out to shed some light on the significance of the Global Financial Crisis. The book emphasises the huge geopolitical significance of China’s global economic presence across the developing world and especially East Asia. It indicates, events (actual) emerge from the complex interaction of an unobservable underlying generative mechanism (real).
