Coercive/Institutional Hegemony and U. S. Status

Since the end of the Cold War, the world structure and America's status in the world have become important topics in international rela- tions. There have appeared three views about U. S. status in the post- Cold War years. The first view is that a unilateral system has been es- tablished, and the United States is the only pole dominating the inter- national system. Other nations including the second-class ones are not qualified to be poles. According to the second point of view, after the…