Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:15:25 -0600
From: Mary Murphy&Salstrand <ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: hegemony


Joshua Raphael Land wrote:
> 
> Keohane in his book "After hegemony" describes how the oil market was a need for political exploitation  and manipulation through best possible incentive. THe irony is that he describes the state of international politics in a world that has only one main super-power, the US and he is clealry American.
> ANy thoughts.

I wish you would elaborate on this point in greater detail.  Are you
saying Keohane is speaking in an international context, while you feel
that America dominates globally?

I would agree that oil exploits and manipulates and that America tends
to dominate the global scene, dropping bombs at times on young,
reactionary states.